Riny Qian wrote: > After chmod'ing -R 777 /etc/ by accident, the system refuses to login, and > complains about the wrong permission on /etc/pam.conf. > > chmod 777 would remove setuid, setgid and the sticky bit from all files. > > How to recover from it quickly? > > Tried to chmod back /etc/pam.conf to 644 via booting from a CD, but it still > didn't work.
pkgchk -f might help you. If it doesn't then restore from backup. -- Darren J Moffat
