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Re: [LUG] Changed permissions of entire system




I very stupidly managed to do
chown user:[username] .* -R
earlier as root and managed to change the file permissions of most of my 
system before i realised exactly what i had done. 

I can log in as root but pppd complains about permissions and i cannot su 
from my user account. 

Is there an easy way to put this right as i have Win4Lin etc installed and 
to reinstall from scratch would take an age

What a cool way to break linux !!! i managed to do 

# rm -f /etc/passwd

once, that was pretty good screw up too.. oops, i had to re-install....

Well i can see if  ican email you a .BZ2 of the file permissions of my 
system...

Altermativly i would use linuxconf in RedHat, it checks file permissions 
and ownerships automatically

Kewel eh.. another reason why i use RH !

Neil


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