> Daniel Woods wrote:
> > 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
Nothing in there except a bunch of rwx------ DrakConf* files.
What I need to know is what are the general rules for which
sub-directories of /bin /dev /usr can be r-x (owned by roor)
for all users ? And which should only be for root's use.
Thanks... Dan.
