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. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines