Jess Planck <jesse@funroe.net> writes:
> 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
The next step probably is to use the -user and -group options to
find(1), so find out which files weren't fixed by the calls to rpm.
Probably have to fix them manually from there, though.
Kevin
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