Waooo!
what a mistake !!
maybe you could tell us what distrib you have ?
but i think the easiest will be to re-install.
(you might get the files permissions from the tar balls or rpms and make
a script to put it back when possible and list the files for wich no
definition of permission was found. Then you will have to fix these
manually. [have a look at the verify option of rpm if you use
redhat/mandrake] )
pascal
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Wideman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 12:28 AM
To: linux-newbie
Subject: File Permissions (Please help)
All,
To try to resolve my user account/permissions dilemma, I changed the
permissions on all files/directories to allow group rwx (and add myself
to
the root group). Bad move, very bad move. Now I'm hosed. Does anyone know
of
a quick way to restore the file permissions to what they should be (i.e.
what they are upon first installation), or am I just going to have to
reinstall?
If anyone can help here, I'd be extremely grateful.
Paul
