On Monday February 9 at 07:45pm Joshua Jankowski <sccrpmp@hotmail.com> wrote: > As I have been quite intelligent in setting permissions on my debian > server, I am here to see if anyone has a solution. In my attempt to > write recursive permissions on one of my directories, I hit enter a > little too prematurely with / as the designated folder. Quickly > noticing the error, I hit ctrl-c to stop the operation but as you can > guiess, it was not soon enough. It overwrote the permissions that > were set by debian in the /bin folder and unknown others. > > Is there a utility or way to easily(or not) fix the default > permissions? I b0rked my old server in a similar fashion. Only sane way to fix it is a clean install. I tried checking the permissions on a similar computer, but there are so many files with special ownership/permissions that I very quickly got very frustrated. Re-install is the best way. (This is the only scenario I've run into that really *required* a reinstall. Everything else I've been able to fix.) -- -johann koenig Today is Sweetmorn, the 36th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3170 My public pgp key: http://mental-graffiti.com/pgp/johannkoenig.pgp
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