Re: [users] NO! chmod strikes!

2001-07-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 12:41:34PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > Thanks for the compliment. Don't ruin your system just to try this, > because it is not perfect. Consider what happens if you: > > chmod a-x /bin/chmod Easy enough to bootstrap yourself out of that one, provided /bin/cp is still e

Re: [users] NO! chmod strikes!

2001-07-15 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 10:21:51AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Joost, your solution was such an elegant thing, that to > ruin my system to learn it was fair enough. Thanks for the compliment. Don't ruin your system just to try this, because it is not perfect. Consider what happens if you:

Re: [users] NO! chmod strikes!

2001-07-14 Thread JoshNarins
Joost, your solution was such an elegant thing, that to ruin my system to learn it was fair enough. Thank you. --Original Message-- by joost On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 06:36:08PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > but anyway, a question for all debianers: how do you get the default > permissions bac

Re: [users] NO! chmod strikes!

2001-07-10 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 01:12:37AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 06:36:08PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > > but anyway, a question for all debianers: how do you get the default > > permissions back on the / tree? > > If you have a clean host with very similar filesystem co

Re: [users] NO! chmod strikes!

2001-07-09 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 06:36:08PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > but anyway, a question for all debianers: how do you get the default > permissions back on the / tree? If you have a clean host with very similar filesystem contents, try this: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "find / -regex '/\(mn

Re: [users] NO! chmod strikes!

2001-07-09 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Sun, 08 Jul 2001 04:17:34PM -0400): > I tried, in a subdir of /root, the command > chmod -R o-rwx .* > It changed the permissions on the parent directory, > the parent's parent directory, all the way up. > > Now only root can use my computer. > > Was chmod suppos