Re: How to gain control over the system?
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 09:49:15PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> Again:
>
> chown -R 1000:1000 /home/kaj/
>
> as root should fix them all. If it doesn't, chown would seem to be broken.
Looks correct.
> Maybe this in addition?
>
> chown -R 1000:1000 /home/kaj/.*
No, NOT correct. Do not do this. .* will expand to .. which will mean
you end up chowning all of /home.
The chown -R rooted in /home/kaj will include all of the dot files,
so you don't need a second step at all. Especially not this one.
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