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bahadir
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 6:52 pm    Post subject: recovery of original file permissions Reply with quote

I messed up the file permissions on /usr by typing

chown -R user:users /usr/*

where I was meant to do it for a subdirectory of /usr

I realised it and stopped the action but some of my permissions were messed up already.

Any suggestions on how to restore them?

What would be the most hassle-free way to reinstall, apart from doing it from scratch?

Thanks,
Bahadir
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msalerno
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Joined: 17 Dec 2002
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 7:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ouch!

I don't know of any tools that would allow you to restore file permissions, but what you could do is post a breif list of what you have installed, then find somebody who has a similar setup and have them give you the output of:

ls -lRa /usr/

Once you have their output, you could easily write a script to correct the permissions. Of course it won't be 100%, as far as i know, the only way to make sure you have all of the permissions corrected would be a reinstall.
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bakreule
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 7:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but you've pretty much hosed yourself. There's no way of getting back your old permissions without a lot of hard work. If you don't want to reinstall, you could just set everything in /usr to

-rw-r--r-- root:root

and then see what breaks, but that's just a pain in the ass. Your best bet is to reinstall..... sorry
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