Re: I do a Big permission mistake
On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 03:18:14PM +0200, Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote:
> hello,
>
> never, never do :
> chmod -R o+r .*
> anywhere. (I do it in /home).
>
> After doing this as root, I lose a lot of right acces every were for
> users.
> user can't use bash, profile dir, libreadline lib .....
>
> is there a way to solve this ?
> using apt-get and force to download all my package and to install
> them again ? (but how?)
>
> Thanks.
The reason it did this is because '..' is included in .* , I would suggest
next time using just * or just . (just . will recurse from the cwd up,
using * will not include the cwd).
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