> 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 {} \;
With a listing of /usr from someone, I was able to correct the
ones that need to be executable.
Could someone please send a permission list of /var and /dev
so I can correct the immediate 'postfix' problem.
Thanks... Dan.
