On 02/08/06 at 07:26, Robert T Wyatt wrote:

> I did a *very bad thing* when I was trying to get a startup script for 
> HenWen to run and I'm not sure how to recover. I changed the permissions 
> on /private/etc to 755 recursively (was supposed to have been a 
> different directory), this means that I now get a security error when 
> invoking sudo "/private/etc/sudoers is mode 0755, should be 0440" and 
> there are probably other problems I haven't discovered yet.

Have you tried running Repair Disk Permissions from Disk Utility? It may
not put everything quite back to where it was, but I expect it should fix
permissions on files in /private/etc that are installed with the OS,
including sudoers.
-- 
Christopher Bort
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<http://www.thehundredacre.net/>


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