Fixing perms

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

    This is why I tell people I know that vacation for me doesn't mean a 
dang thing...it's just another working day for me.  This morning I 
received an e-mail from a client that has his machine co-located with 
me.  It seems over the weekend he screwed with "something" which caused 
several things on the system to quit working.  After hunting for a bit 
(and looking at his .bash_history) I figured that he ran a few 'chown' 
commands in places like /usr/sbin and lord knows where else.  So, now 
I'm trying to figure out if:

    a) I need rebuild his machine from scratch, or
    b) if there's some way that I can verify binary permissions and what 
not, possibly by running some rpm verify command?  I don't know.

    Part of me wants to simply rebuild the machine, but at the same time 
I don't have time to go through this right now.

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R | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere.
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