Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:44:55 +0700 From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world & build from ports? Message-ID: <20130129184455.742b28d8@X220.ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <20130129090819.GA1372@tiny.Sisis.de> References: <op.wrms0fqkqhadp0@freebsd> <20130129082806.GA2035@holstein.holy.cow> <20130129090819.GA1372@tiny.Sisis.de>
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Hi, On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:08:20 +0100 Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote: > El d=C3=ADa Monday, January 28, 2013 a las 10:28:06PM -1000, parv escribi= =C3=B3: >=20 >=20 > In general, I find all this thread (wrong file owner) a bit boring. I find it very interesting. > This is a mayor damage and can only be repaired by a new > installation. A lot of files and directories in the systems This is what I am doubting. Shouldn't an installation of the world solve this problem? Or are the current owners of a directory ignored when the world is reinstalled? > filesystem, in / /var /usr, have dedicated owner to allow certain > processes which does not run as 'root' to do their correct work > there, for exmample 'mail'; i.e. you can not do just a complete > "chown -R root .... " and expect that the system still works; It cannot get worse. His experience will show also others how robust FreeBSD is in case of failures. Erich
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