Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
I know that I could have used find to look for all files owned by the old UID, plunked it through xargs and chowned them that way, but is there a way, as root, to chown directly the hidden files without chowning the whole box?
The simplest way would be to recursively chown the home directory: chown chrisj.chrisj ~chrisj That won't follow the .. link. -- Chris Jackson