Re: Permissions

[Paul Morgan <paulswm@earthlink.net>]

On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 19:45:15 -0600, Joshua Jankowski 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?
> 

You could always get them from your latest backup *cough*

-- 
....................paul

It is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big
enough hammer.
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