Help avoiding .* problems

[Ben Duncan]

go to the directory *ABOVE* the one you want to change.
Lets say the directory is /home/jones.

cd /home

then do

chown -R jones jones/
or if needing to change the OWNER and Group
chown -R jones:newgroup jones/

Tom Condon wrote:
> Yup.  Shot myself in the foot again.
> 
> Some versions of *nix *do* and some versions *don't* allow 
> access to '..' when you specify '.*' in a regular expression 
> (say, chown).
> 
> I'm running RedHat on a laptop (and may need to re-install 
> now), but I'd like to avoid this in the future.
> 
> Is there a way to set something so this *won't* happen?  If I 
> want to change ownership of all of a user's files (because I 
> copied one user to another) but don't want it going ../../.. 
> on me (and thereby changing the entire filesystem).  Is there 
> a way to do that?  Probably in root's setup files?
> 
> First clue: chown takes a while
> Second clue: error message:
> 	chown: changing ownership of '../proc/526' : Operation not 
> permitted
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions you can give me (besides never log 
> on as root).
> 
> 
> In Harmony's Way and In A Chord,
> 
> Tom  ;-})
> 
> Tom. Condon
> Barbershop Bass Singer
> Registered Linux User #154358
> A Jester Unemployed
> 
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