On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 16:23, Michael Schwendt <mschwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 28 May 2011 16:02:13 +0300, DC wrote: > >> I came across an interesting warning while googling an issue: >> apparently chowning another user's home directory will change your own >> home directory? That is what is warned here: >> http://www.ambience.sk/old/user-account-copy-linux >> Search that page for commenter hollerith's comments, which another >> commenter verifies. > > Nonsense. Couldn't you have quoted the relevant command-line? > It uses > > /home/newuser/.* > > which is _not_ "another user's home directory", because the .* also > includes .., the parent directory, which in this case is /home. >
It looks to me that the gentleman who wrote the article tried to address dotfiles with that command without thinking about the . and .. files. I didn't think about those either until you made it explicit, and now I understand what the issue it. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
