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xiaweitang
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 Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 6:52 pm Post subject: [SOLVED]chown -R behavior is strange |
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Suppose I have three dirs in /home: user1, user2 and user3, and I want to change the ownership of user1 and all its contents to user1:users.
| Code: | cd /home
chown user1:users user1
cd user1
chown -R user1:users ./*
chown -R user1:users ./*.*
chown -R user1:users ./.* |
After those steps, I found not only the contents of user1 have the ownership user1:users, but the directories user2 and user3 ant all of their contents also have the ownership of user1:users. It seems chown -R operates outside the present working directory. Also, is there a way to combine the last three lines of my commands?
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mikegpitt
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| Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 7:01 pm Post subject: Re: chown -R behavior is strange |
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| xiaweitang wrote: | Suppose I have three dirs in /home: user1, user2 and user3, and I want to change the ownership of user1 and all its contents to user1:users.
| Code: | cd /home
chown user1:users user1
cd user1
chown -R user1:users ./*
chown -R user1:users ./*.*
chown -R user1:users ./.* |
After those steps, I found not only the contents of user1 have the ownership user1:users, but the directories user2 and user3 ant all of their contents also have the ownership of user1:users. It seems chown -R operates outside the present working directory. Also, is there a way to combine the last three lines of my commands? |
The problem is that you are including the directory under the current working directory in your commands with the .* and the *.* chown calls. This will include .. and start traveling outside user1/.
Instead try this:
| Code: | cd user1
chown -R user1:users . |
...or just this in your parent dir:
| Code: | | chown -R user1:users user1/ |
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xiaweitang
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