[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (CHOWN)
- From: knura@xxxxxxxxx (Arun Khan)
- Date: Wed Jun 18 23:32:24 2008
On Wednesday 18 Jun 2008, Balu manyam wrote:
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Arun Khan <knura@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wednesday 18 Jun 2008, Arun Khan wrote:
$ cd /home; chown -R usr1: usr1
Oops. should be
# cd /home; chown -R usr1: usr1
if i recall correctly one needs to be careful with -R flag as if the
dir contains symlinks chown -R may follow the symlink ? -- '-RH '
may prevent this happenining
<from man page>
-H if a command line argument is a symbolic link to a directory,
traverse it
-P do not traverse any symbolic links (default)
</from man page>
For the specific use case, the CLI above is fine as is, have not yet
encountered symlinks in /home for user dirs.
--
Arun Khan
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