Did I totally mess up my computer? chmod question

Artherio · n00b Joined: 09 Jan 2004 Posts: 65

Hey, I was trying to set the permissions of my /dev/dri file to the video group. I'm a complete Linux n00b so I wasn't too sure what I was doing. First off I did cd /dev/dri, then I type chmod --recursive --verbose 0600 /*, I didn't specify the directory because I figured it would start in the directory I am in. Well I noticed that it was changing the permissions of all of the files on my computer. I hit cntrl+c to stop it when I realized what is going on, is there anyway to undo this? I still have the console up and all of the files it changed. I just got linux up and running yesterday for the first time, will I have to reinstall everything?

BradN · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 2:03 am Post subject:

yeah, as you probably know now, you didn't want to use the / in the command... if you have another computer handy, you could boot a livecd and check what the permissions of things are on there and adjust accordingly (most of the stuff in the same directory should have the same permissions, except /etc has some things different).

Otherwise you could post what directories were affected and I could check the permissions for you.

slartibartfasz · Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 4:33 pm Post subject:

looks like a reinstall indeed

while u could check everything by hand i dont recommend that - there are a lot of files even in a basic installation and u will never be sure that u didnt forget something. if i were u i would reinstall. there are some good news though: u are not the only one

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