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How do I restore and accidental chmod (or chown, chgrp) of root directory?

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Mar 15, 20266001 views

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I was altering permissions to log files and accidentally gave 777 to root. Doah. Could be worse I guess. And I caught it immediately and canceled the command's execution. Except the accident brought to mind that I run in root a lot. I use both Macintosh and Linux. Mac has a repair permissions utili…

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For rpm based distributions it's easy to reset all managed files back to the installed state. Replace '-a' with package name(s) to limit reset.

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How do I restore and accidental chmod (or chown, chgrp) of root directory?

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