RE: GLUG: Directory Permissions

[Carl Swart <carl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Your best bet is to get someone with a 7.2 installation, and ask them to
do a ls -laR > permissions.txt, then you'll have to go through and set it
by hand.

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Regards,
    Carl Swart
    Systems Administrator
    WebONLINE, SA
    carl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    http://www.webonline.co.za


On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 KEpstein@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 11:55:43 +0200 
> From: KEpstein@xxxxxxxxx
> To: glug@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: GLUG: Directory Permissions
> 
> Only fool proof way I can think of is to revert to a known-good backup.
> 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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