On Wednesday 20 February 2002 01:48 pm, you wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 01:10:57PM -0600, David Blevins wrote:
> > chown -R guest.users .*
>
> ROFL!! Next time use find:
>
> bash$ find <path> -exec chown guest:users \{\} \;
wouldn't:
bash$ cd ..
bash$ chown -R guest:users that_dir
be a little easier? I think that takes care of the hidden files too.
>
> I would also use the ':' separator between user:guest. There was a
> discussions about this on debian-devel about the base-passwd package, I
> believe. It has to do with the idea that 'lastname.firstname' (or some
> such use of the period) can potentially be a legitimate account name.
> Using the ':' character is the POSIX way of specifying it, I believe.
> The '.' notation in chown is provided as a backward compabitility thing.
>
> I should try to find the actual references for this.