Re: [LUG] Changed permissions of entire system

[kevin bailey <kevin_bailey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

if you were near the top of the directory tree then i think you have 
hosed the system.  file ownership is pretty important to how the system 
works and also for security.  either restore from any backup, or save 
your personal data somewhere and reinstall,

sorry i can't think of anything else,

kev

kj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 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
>
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