Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 19:31:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jeffrey Itzstein <jeff@fritzlink.net.au> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: chmod, default rights??? flags ??? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960909192957.233B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960909025101.00685360@fritz.fritzlink.net.au>
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On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Jeffrey Itzstein wrote: > I have searched the man for the default flags. I became confused and have > stuffed a lot of them up. I issued a chmod 0007 * on most dirs followed by a > chmod ug+w * . Is there an easy way of reseting all rights back to square 1 > as it were, I have read the man section on install and considered issuing a > chmod 0755 * in all dirs. Any guidance will be greatly appreciated as I am > only a rank novice. I can still log in as root fine so all is not lost maybe. The "default" is set on a user-to-user basis. If you want to reset the permissions back to their *installed* defaults, check out mtree(1). The mtree files are in /etc/mtree. > I would welcome the source location of any good FreeBSD manuals, books or > help files. Thank you. http://www.freebsd.org Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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