Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 11:16:27 -0600 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: chmod Message-ID: <200004301716.e3UHGRb42712@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004301852490.11370-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>
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On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 18:54:36 +0800 (WST) Dean Hollister wrote:
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| Hiyall,
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| I have a Member who 'accidentally' did:
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| chmod -R 777 /usr
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| 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?
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| Many files/programs are setuid owner or setuid group. Also, many of the
| directory permissions appear wrong also.
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| Any ideas would be very warmly appreciated.
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| Regards,
|
| d.
|
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Make a backup of /etc and then recover the 'bin' distribution and
maybe some others from install media. Finaly recover /etc.
chris
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