[rhelv6-list] setuid helper permission???

[Barry Brimer]

> A critical typo in a revised script totally trashed all permissions on my
> RHEL6.1 server. Fortunately even in that damaged state it booted to
> runlevel 1. It's taken me two weeks to reinstall all 2471 packages,
> restore permissions IAW the RPM database plus the thousands that aren't
> recorded there. I can now boot to runlevel 3 just fine. Runlevel 5,
> however, seems just out of reach. It boots to the graphical logon screen,
> but that's where keyboard and mouse operations quit.

Have you tried using rpm --setperms <name of rpm> ??  If it is insisting 
on setuid you could use find to locate all the setuid binaries and examine 
the permissions of those that seem relevant to your issue.  Of course 
having a clean working install to compare these perms to would also help!

Barry