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

[Mike McCarty]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Fr, den 08.07.2005 schrieb Shawn um 8:13:
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>>quite recently I mistakenly did something like chown -R jr /
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>>I wonder if etc and boot shouldn't properly be owned by root?
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>Sure, they have to be root owned.
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They *have* to be root ownership? What is there which will not function
if they are not root ownership?

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>>Dare I try changing them back?
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>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. 
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That's a good point. I took it for granted in my response.

Mike

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