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Date:      Fri, 23 May 1997 11:24:34 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Joachim Kuebart <joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de>
To:        Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Problem!
Message-ID:  <XFMail.970523115202.joki@jocki.domestic.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970521200932.975A-100000@luke.cpl.net>

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On 22-May-97 at 03:13:05 Shawn Ramsey wrote:
>We have a slight problem. Accidentaly, the command chown /*/* (or
>something like that) was performed as root. :( /dev, amoung others have
>the wrong owner. Do all the /dev files have the same owner? Root? Bin?
>What? 

Nope! The device entries have quite different owners (dialer, opertaor, ...)
See /dev/MAKEDEV for the settings used when the are created...
/dev itself is root:wheel!

>
>What should most executable files have, such as /bin, and /sbin? Do I need
>to reinstall, or can I assign all the system executables root w/o mishap?

Most executables are bin:bin. However, some of the setuid/setgid need to bee in
a different user/group, for obvious reasons (that's the whole point of setuid,
setgid). Maybe the man pages will help...
Try getting a bin release and run
        cat bin.?? | tar tzvf | more
It will show the owners of the base binaries... I don't know about packages,
though :-(

>
>
>Thanks... 

cu Jo

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