Re: System broken with chown -R as root

chris_at_nospam.com
Date: 07/18/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 04:57:32 GMT

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 18:26:27 -0000, Michael Heiming
<michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote:

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>In linux.redhat nospam55 <nospam@y60ahoo.no> suggested:
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>> some weeks ago I said inadvertently ' chown -R /* user1:user1 ' as root ; the
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>> has disappeared. reinstalling the printer didnt help; finally I also scrambled
>> with chown and chmod something else, also in /var/spool/lpd
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>> I m afraid I must reinstall the system because of this printing problem, but
>> it would be philosophically more satisfactory to fix the problem with chown and chmod
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>Now it would be easier to use your package manager:
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> rpm -qa | xargs rpm --setperms
> rpm -qa | xargs rpm --setugids
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>'man rpm' for more info.
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>You need to fix /home manual.

The man page for rpm doesn't elaborate on --setperms and --setguids.
I assume they repair the uids and perms?

-Chris

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