Resetting File and Directory Permissions To Original Values

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On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Robert L Cochran
<cochranb at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> While trying to fix a problem where users of the Fedora version of Wordpress
> are unable to upload images using the Wordpress screens and code, I spent a
> lot of time modifying file and directory permissions in
> /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/*, trying various combinations of
> user-group-other permissions and ownerships in a vain attempt to get uploads
> to work in this way. The problem has since been fixed by modifying SELinux
> file contexts.
>
> Now I'm left with a lot of permissions in /usr... that are no longer set to
> the original permissions and ownerships held by those files and folders. Is
> there an automated way of resetting the permissions back to what they once
> were for all except the uploads directory in question?
>
> Is there a dictionary available that lists the exact permissions that should
> be on every file and folder in /usr?

See the --dump and --setperms options to rpm which can help you get
things back to a normal state.

John