Re: GLUG: Directory Permissions

[bosmanp <bosmanp@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 03 January 2001 11:55, KEpstein@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Only fool proof way I can think of is to revert to a known-good backup.

Backup? What is a backup?
You know how it goes when it is your own machine. Such things just don't 
exist.
Thanks for the repsonse though.


> Other than that I think you're going to struggle
>
> Rgds,
> Kevin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bosmanp [mailto:bosmanp@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 03 January 2001 10:34
> To: glug@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: GLUG: Directory Permissions
>
>
> Good day All
>
> I had a slip a while ago and changed permissions on all files/dirs in /var
> to
> 600. Obviously this stuffed a lot of things.
>
> Is there a way of getting all the permissions the way it was/should be. I'm
> running Mandrake 7.2
>
> I changed all permissions to 777 just to get all running again. I then got
> a
>
> huge list from my security program stating every file/dir and said that it
> was world writable. I then decided to go in and change every dir the
> security
> system was complaining about to 755. This caused a number of things to stop
> working again.
>
> Thanks
>
> Pierre Bosman
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