[Bug 989863] Re: CHOWN DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY IN 64bit kubuntu

[Tyler Hicks]

I've verified that `chown -R user:group *` does not change the owner of
files in the parent directory in 11.10. Please reopen with more details
instructions if you can consistently reproduce this.

Note that using '*' to specify the current directory is generally bad
practice. It relies on shell expansion and may have undesired results. I
suggest using `chown -R user:group .`

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Title:
  CHOWN DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY IN 64bit kubuntu

Status in “coreutils” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  chown -R user1:groep1 * should everything underthe current directory
  put as owner user1  and as group : groep1 That is iwhat chown does but
  it also do it on the diroctory above and everything under it, With
  multiple applying from the same dir your whole / is put to
  user1:groep1 !  even if you did start in  /home/user1/ directory !

  How is that possible ? I did it under mc  and control -O gives the command prompt with /home/user1 
  I never had this problem before.

  I used Kubuntu 11.10 and all updates applied today. I created the users but some files were with copying not with the right user so I wanted it to change with mc and chown in sudo mode.   account with root powers: sudo mc
  changed it to other account /home/user1 and every user had suddenly user1:group1 as owner.....

  Please fix this bug otherwise Kubuntu is unusable ! This is also a
  security issue !!!

  SEVERE SECURITY BUG !!!

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