Your suggestion was the very first thing I did incase the machine went
offline. Especially the home users and root on the file system.
I forgot to mention that It wasn't just the owner it was also the
group. I haven't had to reset permissions on a complete file system in
a long time. So many system users like postfix, mysql... not mention
device groups like sys, disk, tty, uucp, etc.
The rpm commands with --setperms and --setguid seemed to restore most
of the scary places. In the early days of rpm these commands had
issues, and I remember trying this in 1998... Had to do a complete
reinstall back then because of a runaway perl script.
Fixing system permissions isn't something that is well documented on
the net. Most folks probably opt for the manual route, or just do a
reinstall.
jess
On Jun 14, 2004, at 11:57 AM, Joey Kelly wrote:
> On Monday 14 June 2004 11:35 am, Jess Planck spake:
>> Hi all, I've been lurking on this list for a while. I'm hoping someone
>> may have some other suggestions or identify any problems with the
>> following solution. This is a RedHat 9.0 install BTW.
>>
>> So you do something stupid as root like this... Don't ask.. it's
>> monday... need coffee.
>>
>> chown -Rf dude /*
>>
>> This ruins the permissions on your system, and can put you in a total
>
> You can do obvious things like chown all of /etc, /bin, /sbin and the
> like to
> root:root, and all of home to $user:users. That's a broad brush, but
> most
> stuff should work after that. Once you've done that, you can fine-tune
> from
> there.
>
> --
>
>
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