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Re: messed-up File Permissions



On Sun Aug 17, 2008 at 21:46:53 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:

> 	Is there any utility that at least gets all the system
> files back to proper ownership?

  No.  The ideal solution is that you restore from your backups...

> Most everything was owned by root and changing
> everything  back to that except for user files was easy but the
> one thing that doesn't work from a user account is su -

  You'll want:

    chown root.root /bin/su
    chmod 4755 /bin/su


  Or similar.

Steve
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