Re: Need help to set right ownerships
At 12:04 PM 8/20/96 cet, you wrote:
>Hi,
>Anybody can help me, please? I really need to be sure how to fix this.
>Logged as root I did:
>
># cd /home/lds ; chown -R lds.users * ; ls -laR | more
>
>and noticing that I forgot to change the ownership of the (hidden) dot files
>I typed:
>
># chown -R lds:users ~/.*
>
>Uchhhh! the `*' expands to `.' among others. By the time I noticed my two
>mistakes and pressed CTRL-C, I had already changed the ownership of /root,
>/home, and some subdirs in /var and /usr.
>
>I saved on a floppy a list (find $dir -exec ls -laR {} \; | grep "lds
>users") with $dir set to /usr and /var. I fixed the ownerships of /root and
>/home by hand and the I typed
>
># shutdown -r now
>
>That was not very clever :-( but I was thinking of fixing everything when
having
>more time, from an emergency base system I have on a separate 16MB partition.
>I am not quite sure how to deal with the files in /var which are written at
>boot time ... ooops! and at shutdown tooo! :-(
>Maybe it help to mention that I have /, /var, /usr, /usr/local and /home (and
>swap) on separate partitions.
>
>Right now I know which files have the wrong ownership but do not know what
>should be the right one. I thought of setting the ownership to root:root to
the
>files in the list and then fix by hand those who shoud be owned by other
system
>group (news, mail,...etc). I think that then I should proceed by fixing
file by
>file, i.e.,
>0)Fixing those in /var/lib/dpkg (any pointer about how to do it?)
>1)removing all installed packages except those flaged as essential (base),
>2)comparing file by file with a fresh Debian 1.1.x base system (I have one).
>3)Reinstalling again the packages.
>
>Any suggestion to make it as safer/cleaner/greener/faster as possible will be
>greatly appreciated. A script maybe to do it automatically?'
>I am not suscribed to the list right now so please answer this to
>my private e-mail. Thank you very much,
>
>Lazaro <salem@rf.no>
>
>
>
>
You should have used chown -R lds:users ./.[a-zA-Z]*
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