On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Bret Busby
<bret@busby.net> wrote:
I know that is how the syntax used to be, because I remember a person (on a UNIX system) losing his account, when he accidentally entered
chmod .
, which changed his . file permissions to zero, and not even the sysadmin could save his account, so he had to be issued with a new account.
While this may not have set up everything exactly as your friend would have preferred it, it would have made his account accessible to him again. He could then add appropriate permissions to things he wanted to grant public access to (for example a public_html directory).