Re: I do a Big permission mistake

1999-04-29 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
Excuse me for the previous mail, I get Panick. I solved it by typing : chmod -R o+r .* the first time to solve it I do only : chmod -R o+r * the solution is the solution of the problem. but it is always true : never use the .* without care. thanks and sorry.

Re: I do a Big permission mistake

1999-04-29 Thread Collins M. Ben
On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 03:18:14PM +0200, Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: > hello, > > never, never do : > chmod -R o+r .* > anywhere. (I do it in /home). > > After doing this as root, I lose a lot of right acces every were for > users. > user can't use bash, profile dir, libreadline lib

Re: I do a Big permission mistake

1999-04-29 Thread Kirk Hogenson
Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: > > hello, > > never, never do : > chmod -R o+r .* > anywhere. (I do it in /home). > Yes, never do this. The problem is that the expression .* matches the "." directory (current directory) and ".." and directory (one level up from current). The problem just get

Re: I do a Big permission mistake

1999-04-29 Thread Richard Harran
Am I being stupid? What about chmod -R u+w .* ? Or probably safer to do chmod u+w .* in individual directories. Are you sure that command below caused this problem? I would have thought that adding others read permissions would have no effect whatsoever on users write permissions. It

I do a Big permission mistake

1999-04-29 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
hello, never, never do : chmod -R o+r .* anywhere. (I do it in /home). After doing this as root, I lose a lot of right acces every were for users. user can't use bash, profile dir, libreadline lib . is there a way to solve this ? using apt-get and force to download all my pac