From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 3 23:29:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA13346 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 23:29:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA13213 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 23:28:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA20116; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 23:25:29 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199803040725.XAA20116@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Joe McGuckin cc: tom@sdf.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: URGENT HELP NEEDED In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Mar 1998 23:10:47 PST." <199803040710.XAA03742@monk.via.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 23:25:26 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > ----- Begin Included Message ----- > > >From tom@sdf.com Tue Mar 3 22:57:24 1998 > Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 22:50:38 -0800 (PST) > From: Tom > To: Joe McGuckin > cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: URGENT HELP NEEDED > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > > Also, is is possible to change permissions on "/"? I see that "/" > contains a ".", so probably. That would break all kinds of non-root > things. > > Tom > > ----- End Included Message ----- > > > Holy cow Batman!!! That's it. Somehow, '/' was changed to 700. You probably did something like # cd /root # chmod 0700 .* > I would have never thought of that. > > Why exactly does this break the system? It means that nothing can perform directory lookups anywhere unless it's running as root, because it can't traverse down from /. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message