Riny Qian writes: > 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 -af -P /etc -R /a" should do the trick, assuming that you've booted from a CD and mounted your root file system on /a. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
