Spontaneous permission change?

[Tim]

On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 14:19 -0700, Mike wrote:
> All of a sudden most of the scripts in my bin directory under my home 
> directory are no longer executable or otherwise have permissions
> mangled.  I don't have any clue how this happened!?!?

The usual cause would be the user using the chmod command with wildcards
that weren't too well looked at, or while in the wrong directory.

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