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Date:      Sun, 30 Apr 2000 15:32:48 +0200
From:      Gary Jennejohn <garyj@peedub.muc.de>
To:        Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
Cc:        Derrick Baumer <bduk@earthlink.net>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: chmod 
Message-ID:  <200004301332.PAA00731@peedub.muc.de>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 Apr 2000 20:24:42 %2B0800." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004302023290.25067-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au> 

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Dean Hollister writes:
>On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Derrick Baumer wrote:
>
>> If you can find someone who isn't too paranoid about security issues,
>> or someone who knows you that is running the same version of the
>> system as you are, you can get them to execute
>
>It's FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE, installed over FTP.
>
>> ls -lR /usr > listing
>> cat listing | mail you@email.address
>> 
>> Then write a quick perl script to set your permissions to the same
>> permissions as those shown in the file.  I am personally a paranoid
>> type, but I might be able to throw a script together to do the job for
>> you.
>
>Thanks for the offer, it is very much appreciated.
>
>I would use a listing of one of our systems (as I implicitly trust the
>person), however we now run 4.0-STABLE, and somethings might be different.
>

Use mtree. See the manpage. You can set the standard permissions for any
file tree under /etc/mtree using it.

---
Gary Jennejohn / garyj@muc.de gj@freebsd.org




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