Permissions problem

[James Cooley]

To reset permissions that were originally set by packages installed as
rpm, try the following:

for x in `rpm -qa`; do rpm --setperms $x; done

This will change the permissions back to what they used to be.

--James Cooley


> 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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