Just last week, I had some root-owned hidden directories in my home directory. So I did: sudo chown -R me:mygroup .* Fortunately, I caught it before it made i

Just last week, I had some root-owned hidden directories in my home directory. So I did: sudo chown -R me:mygroup .* Fortunately, I caught it before it made it out of /home, so only some user directories were affected, and the cleanup was relatively straightforward.