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atmosx n00b
Joined: 17 Jul 2009 Posts: 43
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Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2024 4:20 pm Post subject: Messed up /etc/ dir permissions |
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Hello,
The other day I messed up the `/etc/` dir permissions by issuing the following command:
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chmod user1:user1 -R *
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I thought I was under `/etc/user1prog` but I was in `/etc`. Once I realised what happened I chmod' everything to `root` apart from `ulogd.conf` which I remember belonging to `ulogd:ulogd` user. Is there any way where I can _fix_ this by re-emerging world or something similar?
Comparing perms to `staging3` doesn't help because they're untar-ed as 'root' so... it's all `root`. The system works, so doesn't seem be like a big deal but I might be missing something subtle.
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Goverp Advocate
Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 2167
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Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2024 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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A quick look, without any deep searching, shows virtually everything on my /etc is owned by root:root. That's to be expected - /etc is system configuration data, usually not writeable by users, but in general readable by everyone.
/etc/cups is root:lp and /etc/portage is root:portage.
would be the sort of mistake that's dangerous! _________________ Greybeard |
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