Help can't login!

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Mon Sep 16 18:05:38 UTC 2013


On 16 September 2013 19:02, William Scott Lockwood III
<vladinator at gmail.com> wrote:
> At which point the command likely fails to have the desired effect. if
> pete is just a regular user, he's likely screwed. If pete is in
> sudoers, he can preface that command with sudo, and it will then work,
> though it won't get hidden files and directories. a better command
> would be
>
> $ sudo chown -R pete:pete .
>
> which will get the current directory an all things below it
> recursively, and will match hidden files.

Ooh, good point. I'd missed both of those points. Well spotted and
thanks for the correction.


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