On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:28:34PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 6/17/14, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell <johnandsa...@cox.net> wrote: > > Zenaan Harkness wrote: > >> On 6/16/14, der.hans <deb-u...@lufthans.com> wrote: > >>> Am 16. Jun, 2014 schwätzte Zenaan Harkness so: > >>> moin moin, > >>>> Most files in /etc/ have lost their file ownerships, having become user > >>>> 1000. > >> > >>>> Can it be easily fixed? > >>>> > >>>> I am running etckeeper - is that useful to fixing this? > >>> Yes, etckeeper keeps track of file ownership and permissions. > >>> > >>> See /etc/.etckeeper. > >> > >> OK, I guess I can run this: > >> git log --pretty=oneline|more > >> > >> and view/record the commits that might have anything interesting (for > >> replaying), and just try rolling back on day at a time, eg with: > >> > >> git reset --hard HEAD~1 > >> > >> Any other techniques I should keep in mind? > > /etc/passwd appears normal. > > > maybe reinstall the files. dpkg can do that. > > That sounds good. How would I that? > > sudoers, sudoers.d, shadow and cups/ seem fine, but _everything_ else > is 1000.1000. > > Looks like a lot of packages to reinstall - is there a semi-automated > way, or just spend the hour or two to reinstall everything?
One possibility might be to debootstrap a directory and then use "chown --reference chrootdir/etc/foo /etc/foo ; chmod --reference chrootdir/etc/foo /etc/foo" > > TIA > Zenaan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/CAOsGNSRC1C6Uj4TaWaWtVX8eV92jP4enA+S8LoO+yRV4hyby=a...@mail.gmail.com >
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