Re: [gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 21:04:15 -0800 Joshua Schmidlkofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, a customer on a hosted server did this today: sudo chown -R lighttpd / -- You can imagine that things are a little borked. How do you fix this with Gentoo? Sincerely, Joshua I think a better fix might be to use a similar gentoo system to 'collect' the permissions on its files and things and then use that data to restore the permissions on the borked computer. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions
-Original Message- From: Joshua Schmidlkofer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 January 2007 05:04 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions Hey, a customer on a hosted server did this today: sudo chown -R lighttpd / -- You can imagine that things are a little borked. How do you fix this with Gentoo? Sincerely, Joshua rm -f /home/customer ;) On a more serious note, I'd go with doing chow -R root / and of course then doing for i in 1,2,3,4,... etc \ chown -R customer$i /home/customer$i You get the idea : David Note: These views are my own, advice is provided with no guarantee of success. I do not represent anyone else in any emails I send to this list. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions
I would think a quick fix (by no means a FULL fix) would be to re-emerge sys-apps/baselayout. That should at least get your init scrips, and important configs back to the right permissions. I've never actually tried that however, so take it with a grain of salt. I would agree with most people on the list tho. Maybe its time for a machine upgrade and just re-emerge everything. Either way tho, I'm betting its going to take a lot of legwork to get things back to the way they were before hand. Also maybe its time to chroot your customers to keep them from screwing things up again :) On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:04:15PM -0800, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: Hey, a customer on a hosted server did this today: sudo chown -R lighttpd / -- You can imagine that things are a little borked. How do you fix this with Gentoo? Sincerely, Joshua -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions
Hey, a customer on a hosted server did this today: sudo chown -R lighttpd / -- You can imagine that things are a little borked. How do you fix this with Gentoo? Sincerely, Joshua -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 21:04 -0800, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: You can imagine that things are a little borked. How do you fix this with Gentoo? Well, do you have any backups of the system to work with? Cause if not, your next easiest approach might be to invent a time machine... But seriously, perhaps an emerge -e world might help? That might not work right away, but if you can fix the errors it gives as they come, it might be able to put everything else (besides user files) back as they were. Randy Barlow http://www.electronsweatshop.com ... faster BogoMIPS calculations (yes, it now boots 2 seconds faster than it used to: we're considering changing the name from Linux to InstaBOOT -- Linus, in the announcement for 1.3.26 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 21:04 -0800, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: Hey, a customer on a hosted server did this today: sudo chown -R lighttpd / *heh heh* apart from saying the mean (but deserved) restore from backup :) maybe you could just `chown -R root /` that would put you in a better state than now, at least. do you use slocate? maybe the slocate database stores permission info for files it searches... you could reverse that info somehow... anyway, what's a customer doing with sudo access? -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Money is the root of all evil, and man needs roots. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
