chmod 666 ///

[Harald Hoyer]

Bruce Hyatt wrote:
>>> I carelessly executed "chmod 666 ///" from a terminal as su 
>>> in a user account.
> 
> --- Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Possibly all he needs to get X going is 'chmod +t /tmp'.
> 
> I tried this first and it didn't work.
> 
>> On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 13:12 -0400, Andrew Parker wrote:
>>> rpm -qa | xargs rpm ----setperms --setugids
> 
> This returned "----setperms: unknown option"
> So I tried it using "--setperms" and it returned
> "chmod: invalid mode string: '[various 7-digit numbers]'"
> It seemed to be looping through this with different 7 digit
> numbers coming back. The mode string indicates how to set the
> permissions.

Here is a fixed version taken from /usr/lib/rpm/rpmpopt-4.4.2.2:

# rpm  -qa --qf '[\[ -L %{FILENAMES:shescape} \] || chmod %7.7{FILEMODES:octal} %{FILENAMES:shescape}\n]' 
|grep -v \(none\) | grep '^. -L ' | sed 's/chmod .../chmod /' | tee /dev/tty | sh



> 
> How would chmod interpret ///? All files and directories 3
> layers deep?
> 
> I'll have to see if I can get hold of a PC that I can make a
> fresh install on to compare the permissions.
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> Bruce
> 
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