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  3. January 2003

RE: At the risk of sounding like an AS/400 rah-rah...

> From: Adam Lang
>
> Actually, on a segue, I did chown -r aalang.admins * and forgot I
> was still
> in / and didn't CD to the directory i wanted.

I can't remember the EXACT command, but somebody did something along the
lines of "chmod -R 400 .." one time and basically locked everybody out of
the machine, because they only had read-only access, even to their own home
directories.  Something like that; it's been a LONG time.

P.S. This is not a Unix slam - they were on as root, and had no business
doing this kind of stuff.

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