Permissions problem

[Burke, Thomas G.]

Thanks - I'll try it.
 
    -Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of James Cooley
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 8:44 AM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: Permissions problem





To reset permissions that were originally set by packages installed as 
rpm, try the following: 

for x in `rpm -qa`; do rpm --setperms $x; done 

This will change the permissions back to what they used to be. 

--James Cooley 


> El Jueves 31 Marzo 2005 15:07, Burke, Thomas G. escribió: 
>> All, 
>> 
>>      I think I've screwed up...  I accidently did a chmod -R 777  * from the 
>> "/" directory (thought I was somewhere else) as root.  At the time, I 
>> thought nothing of it, as I figured that if everything had 777 
>> permissions, 
>> while it needed fixed, it wouldn't hose things up.  I appear to be 
>> wrong. 
>> Mail has stopped working.  I can't log in...  Looking through the logs 
>> leeds me to believe that maybe the permissions are screwing things up, 
>> but 
>> I'm not sure. 
>> 
>>      Any clues? 
>> 
>>      Thanks, 
>>              Tom 
> 
> In order to avoid attacks or avoid some users look into /root or /home/* 
> you 
> can do chmod -R 755 * 
> Then you can search for a best solution, but, i recommend you to do as 
> quicly 
> as you can chmod 755. 
> Do you have a backup created with the option -p (keep permission)? If you 
> got 
> it you can restore your system from it. 
> 
> Cheers 
> 
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