On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 17:17:59 +0200
atar <atar.yo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there!!
> 
> I have in my machine a directory that has the value of '000' as its
> permissions and even when I switch to the root account (using the
> 'su' command), I'm not able to 'chown' it nor to 'chmod' it  nor to
> delete it. so my question is simply how can I deal with such a
> directory or file? (I have no idea how were these permissions changed
> to '000').
> 
> Regards,
> 
> atar.

Try 'sudo chattr -i foobar' to make it with more normal permissions,
and get control of it again. Then you need to find out who did it, how
and when.

Sharon.
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