From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 29 11:31:38 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C678BC19 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:31:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from ms16-1.1blu.de (ms16-1.1blu.de [89.202.0.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61971398 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:31:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.113.121.31] (helo=tiny.Sisis.de) by ms16-1.1blu.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U09Pb-00029w-OD for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:31:36 +0100 Received: from tiny.Sisis.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tiny.Sisis.de (8.14.5/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r0TBVXWY016309 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:31:33 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: (from guru@localhost) by tiny.Sisis.de (8.14.5/8.14.3/Submit) id r0TBVWcZ016308 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:31:32 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) X-Authentication-Warning: tiny.Sisis.de: guru set sender to guru@unixarea.de using -f Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:31:32 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to fix a broken owner for files from world & build from ports? Message-ID: <20130129113131.GA16297@tiny.Sisis.de> References: <20130129082806.GA2035@holstein.holy.cow> <20130129090819.GA1372@tiny.Sisis.de> <1359458589.2199.32.camel@precise> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1359458589.2199.32.camel@precise> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT r226986 (i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Con-Id: 51246 X-Con-U: 0-guru X-Originating-IP: 82.113.121.31 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:31:38 -0000 El día Tuesday, January 29, 2013 a las 12:23:09PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf escribió: > On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 10:08 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > This is a mayor damage and can only be repaired by a new installation. > > Perhaps true, but if such a simple mistake can't be fixed, what happens > when somebody makes a big mistake? Perhaps more people stay with Linux > than other *NIX, regarding to the policy, that issues should be fixed > instead of always starting from the beginning. ;)? > > Of course, if I simply would restore from a dump, it will be less time > consuming and it wouldn't annoy you, but I would have the bad feeling, > that if ever needed, thinks can't be fixed, I always would have to > restore from backups. And what happens, if for what reason ever a backup > shouldn't be available? A damage like this can only be done with root privs and if you are root you should be careful and think twice before; this is true for any UNIX and Linux type system. matthias -- Sent from my FreeBSD netbook Matthias Apitz | - No system with backdoors like Apple/Android E-mail: guru@unixarea.de | - No HTML/RTF in E-mail WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | - No proprietary attachments phone: +49-170-4527211 | - Respect for open standards