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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:36:32 +0200
From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@in-nomine.org>
To: Mike Price <bipolor@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: How do I unchown a directory after I: chown -R /etc ???
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-On [20080930 11:26], Mike Price (bipolor@gmail.com) wrote:
>How do I unchown a directory after I: chown -R /etc

There is no unchown. You either rechown with the correct users or you use
mtree with one of the dist files in /etc/mtree to recreate the directory
structure with the correct rights/users.

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