Thanks - I'll try it.
-Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of James Cooley
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 8:44 AM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: Permissions problem
To reset permissions that were originally set by packages installed as
rpm, try the following:
for x in `rpm -qa`; do rpm --setperms $x; done
This will change the permissions back to what they used to be.
--James Cooley
> El Jueves 31 Marzo 2005 15:07, Burke, Thomas G. escribió:
>> All,
>>
>> I think I've screwed up... I accidently did a chmod -R 777 * from the
>> "/" directory (thought I was somewhere else) as root. At the time, I
>> thought nothing of it, as I figured that if everything had 777
>> permissions,
>> while it needed fixed, it wouldn't hose things up. I appear to be
>> wrong.
>> Mail has stopped working. I can't log in... Looking through the logs
>> leeds me to believe that maybe the permissions are screwing things up,
>> but
>> I'm not sure.
>>
>> Any clues?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tom
>
> In order to avoid attacks or avoid some users look into /root or /home/*
> you
> can do chmod -R 755 *
> Then you can search for a best solution, but, i recommend you to do as
> quicly
> as you can chmod 755.
> Do you have a backup created with the option -p (keep permission)? If you
> got
> it you can restore your system from it.
>
> Cheers
>
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