On Fri, June 27 at 12:08 PM EDT
Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I did something very stupid -
>
> cd /root
> chmod go-r .* -R
>
> thinking that it would change just the permissions on the files inside
> the root folder. Now all my permissions are screwed up.
>
> Is there an easy way to rebuild the permissions on the files in the
> system.
Are you sure you messed up the whole filesystem that way? /root is
roots homedir and according to chmod manpage:
"
In contrast, chmod ignores symbolic links encoun-
tered during recursive directory traversals.
"
I do not know of an easy way to fix it if you did, though. I guess most
system files have a mode of 755. I made a similar mistake in /usr once.
I had to tweak the X init file perms but mostly made things 755 and it
has seemed okay since.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Shri
>
Shawn Lamson
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Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
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