Re: I've been bit again (badly)...

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

> Sometime try the following experiment:
> change your UID/GID of your home directory.

Fortunately under Linux only root can do that. (_POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICT is 1)

> Log out.
> 
> See how long it takes you to get your machine straightenend out
> again.  See how many places you have to go fix you weren't expecting
> to...

Oh yes. Generally find . -exec is the only clean approach, and thats
always worrying