Re: Help: need to fix ownership of /var/...
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996 Lazaro.Salem@rf.no wrote:
> Reposting message with slight modifications as I haven't got any answer yet.
> -----
> Hi,
>
> Some files under /var and /usr are normally owned by root:systemgroup
> were the string systemgroup above can be root, staff, adm , mail, news ...etc
>
> Q: Will the bootup break something if the ownership of /var/... are set to
> root:root instead?
In a word, yes, or alternately, you will leave gapping security holes.
If you have a friend with a working linux box, ask him to
do a find / -ls > trashfile, and mail you the results.
You can then construct a script that reads this file, and executes
chmod/chown as appropriate.
Alternately, start over with a clean root file system.
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