Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 11:16:27 -0600 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: chmod Message-ID: <200004301716.e3UHGRb42712@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004301852490.11370-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>
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On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 18:54:36 +0800 (WST) Dean Hollister wrote: +------------------ | | Hiyall, | | I have a Member who 'accidentally' did: | | chmod -R 777 /usr | | This has apparently broken a large number of items in his system. Does | anyone have suggestions on how to fix all of these permissions problems? | | Many files/programs are setuid owner or setuid group. Also, many of the | directory permissions appear wrong also. | | Any ideas would be very warmly appreciated. | | Regards, | | d. | +------------------ Make a backup of /etc and then recover the 'bin' distribution and maybe some others from install media. Finaly recover /etc. chris -- Chris Fedde 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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