Fixing permissions on system

[smmot]

Hello,

One of my users did a sudo chmod -R 755 /

You can now imagine how the system was left.

Is there any way to revocer from this? A permission recovery script?

If the only way is to go manually fixing permissions, where can I find the default permissions for a gnome installation?

[coolsnowmen]

You could use the find and stat commands to make a complete permissions list on a known good computer and chmod each file individually. The home folders should be ok. As long as the broken computer has only a subset of the file permissions the knowngood computer has, it should work.

You would probably then use a boot disc on the broken computer and load this script and just use awk or something like chmod $premissions /mnt/gentoo/$file, and execute it.

Does that interest you?
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