Permissions problem

[Manuel Arostegui Ramirez]

El Jueves 31 Marzo 2005 15:07, Burke, Thomas G. escribió:
> All,
>
> 	I think I've screwed up...  I accidently did a chmod -R 777  * from the
> "/" directory (thought I was somewhere else) as root.  At the time, I
> thought nothing of it, as I figured that if everything had 777 permissions,
> while it needed fixed, it wouldn't hose things up.  I appear to be wrong. 
> Mail has stopped working.  I can't log in...  Looking through the logs
> leeds me to believe that maybe the permissions are screwing things up, but
> I'm not sure.
>
> 	Any clues?
>
> 	Thanks,
> 		Tom

In order to avoid attacks or avoid some users look into /root or /home/* you 
can do chmod -R 755 *
Then you can search for a best solution, but, i recommend you to do as quicly 
as you can chmod 755.
Do you have a backup created with the option -p (keep permission)? If you got 
it you can restore your system from it.

Cheers

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