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Re: Help! File permissions keep changing...



On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 01:58:59PM +0100, Ivan Brezina wrote:
> [...]
>
> hmm, xargs does not use quotes when executing commands. This causes 
> problems with dirs with spaces in name.
> If user has directory named "dummy root", he can easily get accsess to 
> /root directory.

Use "find -print0" and "xargs -0" instead, and there will be no problems
with spaces.

-- 
Ayose Cazorla León
Debian GNU/Linux - setepo



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