Re: GLUG: Directory Permissions

[bosmanp <bosmanp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just as a matter of interest. I found a solution to this stuff up.
rpm --setperms -a. It takes a long time, but goes through all the packeges 
installed and changes the permissions to what it should be.

On Wednesday 03 January 2001 13:18, bosmanp wrote:
> 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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