On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 12:02:50PM -0600, Mike Coddington wrote: > Last night I screwed up my /tmp directory's permissions. I fixed it by > looking at another machine's permissions and editing the directory with > chmod(1). Is there a tool in OpenBSD which would work better than this? > I'm fortunate enough to have more than one machine running OpenBSD, but > if I didn't this could have been more of a problem for me. > > Any good tricks the list would like to share? Is there a canonical > source for where permissions/ownership is listed? I tried searching MARC > but as you might imagine there are a lot of results that come back for > this sort of thing.
This should tell you when permissions are wrong doas mtree -f /etc/mtree/4.4BSD.dist -p / -e The -u option can be used to fix any issues, but I'm not very familiar with mtree so I'd be hesitant to use it to modify anything; I'd just fix it manually.
