owner of /etc /boot and / (related to can't su thread???)

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 08.07.2005 schrieb Shawn um 8:13:

> quite recently I mistakenly did something like chown -R jr /
> 
> and got a few error messages before I could kill the process.
> 
> Anyway, does this look odd for ownership
> 
> [jr at bb497-175 root]$ ls -lat / | grep jr
> drwxr-xr-x   81 jr root 12288 Jul  8 14:43 etc
> drwxr-xr-x   23 jr root  4096 Jul  8 14:39 .
> drwxr-xr-x   23 jr root  4096 Jul  8 14:39 ..
> drwxr-xr-x    4 jr root  1024 Jul  8 08:28 boot
> 
> I wonder if etc and boot shouldn't properly be owned by root?

Sure, they have to be root owned.

> Dare I try changing them back?

If you did really execute above command "chown -R jr /", then ownership
change happened recursive so that too the owner below those dirs
changed. You should use "find -uid N" to find out. All /boot content is
root owned, nearly everything below /etc should so too. 

> Shawn

Alexander


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