On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 04:17:34PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I tried, in a subdir of /root, the command | chmod -R o-rwx .* | It changed the permissions on the parent directory, | the parent's parent directory, all the way up.
Yes, '.*" includes ".." which is the parent directory. | Now only root can use my computer. | | Was chmod supposed to understand .* so differently | than /bin/ls does? No, it doesn't. ls shows the same thing ("ls -R" anyways). chmod the stuff back to where it should be ;-). -D