On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 01:10:57PM -0600, David Blevins wrote:
> chown -R guest.users .*
ROFL!! Next time use find:
bash$ find <path> -exec chown guest:users \{\} \;
I would also use the ':' separator between user:guest. There was a
discussions about this on debian-devel about the base-passwd package, I
believe. It has to do with the idea that 'lastname.firstname' (or some
such use of the period) can potentially be a legitimate account name.
Using the ':' character is the POSIX way of specifying it, I believe.
The '.' notation in chown is provided as a backward compabitility thing.
I should try to find the actual references for this.
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