RE: [cobalt-users] I'm an idiot - please help me

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Rodolfo Paiz wrote:

> > chown -R 755 * as root
> 
> Does chown do this? 

annoyingly , yes ;)
It probably shouldn't, since there's no such user, , but it just figures
you mean UID=755 and since your
root it happily does whatever you ask ;)

good reason not to work as root :)

[admin tmp]$ touch zz
[admin tmp]$ ls -l

-rw-rw-r--   1 admin    home            0 Mar 15 16:15 zz
[root tmp]# chown 755 zz
[root tmp]# ls -l

-rw-rw-r--   1 755      home            0 Mar 15 16:15 zz

gsh