Re: Restoring sticky bits after accidentally moving /usr directory

[Steve Dondley <s@dondley.com>]

On 2021-05-19 06:30 AM, Hans wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 19. Mai 2021, 00:26:18 CEST schrieb Steve Dondley:
> I believe, there is no easy way. However, if interested, I can send you 
> my
> list of permissions of /var and /usr. These are not changed by me with 
> one
> exception (/var/log/motion/motion.log, as there is a bug).
>
> Please send me your private mailadress when interested, I do not want 
> to send
> the files into the list here (minimzing possible readers).
>
> Maybe somone has the same idea and can create a script to set 
> permissions from
> an untouched folder to another folder. Dunno, if this is possible at 
> all.

Thanks for the offer. However, I fixed the problem by doing:

"sudo find /usr -perm g=s" and sudo "find /usr -perm u=s" on a known 
good install similar to my broken machine.

Then I manually changed permissions on the broken machine. It didn't 
take too long and I could be sure things didn't get too badly screwed up 
by doing it manually. There was only about a dozen or so 
directories/files that needed to be changed.