Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 13:32:12 -0600 From: greg <gval@mts.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: permissions problems Message-ID: <1075491131.675.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20040130185302.GA83276@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <05a601c3e75f$93714810$fa10fea9@bryanuptrvb0jc> <20040130185302.GA83276@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 12:53, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 02:33:27AM +0800, Spades wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What if one of my admin accidentally did a: > > > > chmod -R o+rx / > > > > and changed my entire system permissions. > > What should i do to restore it? > > > > Please assist. Thanks. > > Several choices: > [... snip ...] > ii) Do a restore from your latest backups. Working out how to merge > any changes to file contents without modifying the file permissions is > left as an exercise for the Or you could write a script to pull only the permissions from backup, and change just the permissions of the files. -- greg <gval@mts.net>
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