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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:
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 | 
 | 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

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    Chris Fedde
    303 773 9134


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