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From: Dan <dan@×××××××××.cx>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 21:15:57
Message-Id: 20070107150950.3c32e466@pascal.spore.ath.cx
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions by Joshua Schmidlkofer
1 On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 21:04:15 -0800
2 "Joshua Schmidlkofer" <joshland@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > Hey, a customer on a hosted server did this today:
5 >
6 > sudo chown -R lighttpd /
7 >
8 > --
9 >
10 > You can imagine that things are a little borked. How do you fix this
11 > with Gentoo?
12 > > Sincerely,
13 > Joshua
14
15 I think a better fix might be to use a similar gentoo system to
16 'collect' the permissions on its files and things and then use that
17 data to restore the permissions on the borked computer.
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