Re: NO! chmod strikes!
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 04:17:34PM -0400, JoshNarins@aol.com wrote:
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| I tried, in a subdir of /root, the command
| chmod -R o-rwx .*
| It changed the permissions on the parent directory,
| the parent's parent directory, all the way up.
Yes, '.*" includes ".." which is the parent directory.
| Now only root can use my computer.
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| Was chmod supposed to understand .* so differently
| than /bin/ls does?
No, it doesn't. ls shows the same thing ("ls -R" anyways).
chmod the stuff back to where it should be ;-).
-D
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