Joost, your solution was such an elegant thing, that to
ruin my system to learn it was fair enough.
Thank you.
--Original Message-- by joost
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 06:36:08PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> but anyway, a question for all debianers: how do you get the default
> permissions back on the / tree?
If you have a clean host with very similar filesystem contents, try this:
ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "find / -regex '/\(mnt\|proc\|tmp\)/.*' -prune -or \
-not -type l -not -type s -printf '%04.4m %u %g %p\n' " \
| while read mode user group path
do
chown $user.$group $path
chmod $mode $path
done
Alternatively, create a huge script like this:
find / -regex '/\(mnt\|proc\|tmp\)/.*' -prune -or \
-not -type l -not -type s -printf 'chown %u.%g %p\nchmod %m %p\n' \
> fixperms.sh
And copy that to the broken machine and run "sh fixperms".
It might not fix all files, unless the two hosts are nearly equal, but
enough to let you find the missing ones to fix by hand. Maybe /home/*
will need special care.
Cheers,
Joost
