On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 06:25:27PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ah, I see now how -R and .* could get kinda crazy. > > Thank you. > > But I changed the perms of / a bit, but it still won't > work (cd is now working for regular user, but no logins, > nor does ls work).
/bin/login is setuid. I think it bails out if it's permissions are wrong (a security feature). > Does anyone have a proper perms setup for / ? > Is there any chance chmod -R o-rwx .* started working > on subdirectories of / ? Your safest bet is probably to reinstall. Otherwise, you'll have a terrible time trying to plug all the security holes you've probably created. -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
