Re: lost file ownerships in etc?

["der.hans" <deb-user@LuftHans.com>]

Am 16. Jun, 2014 schwätzte Zenaan Harkness so:

moin moin,

> Most files in /etc/ have lost their file ownerships, having become user 1000.
>
> Why might this happen?

chown -R 1000 /etc/

Please don't run that :)

> Can it be easily fixed?
>
> I am running etckeeper - is that useful to fixing this?

Yes, etckeeper keeps track of file ownership and permissions.

See /etc/.etckeeper.

ciao,

der.hans

> TIA
> Zenaan

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