On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 22:27 -0600, David D Turley wrote: > Ok, lets say I "accidently" executed the command: > > chmod -R 777 . > > from the root directory. What do I need to do to re-secure my system > and undo this big oops?
Unless you had a database of file permissions (intrusion detection often does this) before the "big oops", I don't see anyway to bring this back to a sane state. Bad file permissions are a huge security risk. I'd look at re-installing. Sorry. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
