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artificio
Apprentice
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 3:52 am    Post subject: I really screwed up my permissions. Reply with quote
So, in attempting to figure out what I'm doing (and set up another account besides root for a desktop), I...
Code:
chmod -R 777 /
:oops:
Anyone have any ideas how I can get my permissions back to normal?
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Brrrr! Difficult question. I think that the only way would be reinstalling, but you can now use portage not to start from scratch. You'll just have to wait till all packs reemerge.
This is the command:
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emerge -e world
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yeah, that's what I was dreading... this thread here mentions something that might be able to work, but I have no clue if it applies to this distro.
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=716493758+1112933096554+28353475&threadId=94416

edit- 321 packages... :o :lol:
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 7:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
artificio wrote:
Yeah, that's what I was dreading... this thread here mentions something that might be able to work, but I have no clue if it applies to this distro.
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=716493758+1112933096554+28353475&threadId=94416

edit- 321 packages... :o :lol:


The Gentoo database is in /var/db/pkg/
It does not seem to have information about permissions, only about which files each package have installed.

If you don't want to do:
emerge -e world
right away,
you probably want to do at least:
emerge -e system

In the long term, you actually want to re-emerge everything...

You might want to do things like:
chmod -R og-w /usr
or maybe:
chmod -R o-w /usr
most files, if not all, under /usr cannot be written by other people than the owner (usually, root).

iTux
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