Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:31:32 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world & build from ports? Message-ID: <20130129113131.GA16297@tiny.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <1359458589.2199.32.camel@precise> References: <op.wrms0fqkqhadp0@freebsd> <20130129082806.GA2035@holstein.holy.cow> <20130129090819.GA1372@tiny.Sisis.de> <1359458589.2199.32.camel@precise>
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El día Tuesday, January 29, 2013 a las 12:23:09PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf escribió: > On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 10:08 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > This is a mayor damage and can only be repaired by a new installation. > > Perhaps true, but if such a simple mistake can't be fixed, what happens > when somebody makes a big mistake? Perhaps more people stay with Linux > than other *NIX, regarding to the policy, that issues should be fixed > instead of always starting from the beginning. ;)? > > Of course, if I simply would restore from a dump, it will be less time > consuming and it wouldn't annoy you, but I would have the bad feeling, > that if ever needed, thinks can't be fixed, I always would have to > restore from backups. And what happens, if for what reason ever a backup > shouldn't be available? A damage like this can only be done with root privs and if you are root you should be careful and think twice before; this is true for any UNIX and Linux type system. matthias -- Sent from my FreeBSD netbook Matthias Apitz | - No system with backdoors like Apple/Android E-mail: guru@unixarea.de | - No HTML/RTF in E-mail WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | - No proprietary attachments phone: +49-170-4527211 | - Respect for open standards
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