Daniel Woods wrote:
> 
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> Boy did I screw up tonight.  I accidently ran 'chmod o-rwx .*'
> inside my /root directory for security reasons.  I should have
> known better and said .[a-zA-Z]* instead.  This of course
> went on to change permissions in /bin /usr /mnt but then
> I killed it.  Without risking security problems, I tried to
> login as a user and 'startx'.  I fixed some of the permission
> problems but X won't run. From root, startx complains about
> not being able to open font 'fixed'.
> 
> The easy way would be to 'chmod o+rx /usr /bin' but obviously
> I don't want to do that for security.  Can someone email me
> (private) a full list of all files in /usr with their
> permissions (LM7.1) using a command like
>     find /usr -exec /bin/ls -al {} \;
> 
> Re-installing from scratch would be one of the last things
> I want to do since getting LM7.1 to work.
> Suggestions please ?
> 
> Thanks... Dan.

font sockets are in /root/tmp

Civileme

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