From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 30 10:16:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (fedde.littleton.co.us [216.17.174.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A24A37BD08 for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 10:16:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e3UHGRb42712; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 11:16:28 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200004301716.e3UHGRb42712@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Dean Hollister Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: chmod In-Reply-To: From: Chris Fedde Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 11:16:27 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 18:54:36 +0800 (WST) Dean Hollister wrote: +------------------ | | Hiyall, | | I have a Member who 'accidentally' did: | | chmod -R 777 /usr | | This has apparently broken a large number of items in his system. Does | anyone have suggestions on how to fix all of these permissions problems? | | Many files/programs are setuid owner or setuid group. Also, many of the | directory permissions appear wrong also. | | Any ideas would be very warmly appreciated. | | Regards, | | d. | +------------------ Make a backup of /etc and then recover the 'bin' distribution and maybe some others from install media. Finaly recover /etc. chris -- Chris Fedde 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message