On 10/24/06, Gabriel Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
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I'm not sure if it would solve all of your permission problems, but I'd try:
find / -type f -exec chmod 600 '{}' \; find / -type d -exec chmod 700 '{}' \;
before moving straight to a re-install.
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