RPM? Reset permissions

[Brad Smith]

I mentioned in another reply, but since it's a really useful and barely
documented feature I'll mention it again. 

Rpm's --setperms option fixes this easily. For example:

[root at satsuki root]# ls -l /bin/bash
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 599860 Dec  9 13:09 /bin/bash
[root at satsuki root]# chmod o-x /bin/bash
[root at satsuki root]# ls -l /bin/bash
-rwxr-xr--  1 root root 599860 Dec  9 13:09 /bin/bash
[root at satsuki root]# rpm --setperms bash
[root at satsuki root]# ls -l /bin/bash
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 599860 Dec  9 13:09 /bin/bash

The --setugids option does the same thing with botched ownership.

Definitely no need to reinstall. =;)

--Brad


On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 17:43, Ronald Warsow wrote:
> hallo
> 
> I found this in maximun-rpm from RH9 docu:
> 
> rpm -qp --queryformat='[%{FILEMODES:perms} %{FILEUSERNAME}
> %{FILEGROUPNAME}   %-80{FILENAMES} : %{=NAME}  \n]' *.rpm
> 
> running this on the distro cd's for each packages gives the orginal
> permissions,etc. 
> running this output against an ls -lR and a lot of "visual grep's" 
> ;-)) 
> gives me the view of a lot work to do, quick leading to a faster
> solution for an mistakenly chmoded and chowned /etc/, /dev, ....
> FRESH INSTALLATION !
> good luck !!!
> 
> ronald
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