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Re: [TCLUG:6539] owners and perms on RedHat linux



Well, first things first, how exactly did you kill them?

;-)

Troy

Bob Tanner wrote:
> 
> I just had a user do a chmod -R 770 /etc and and chown me.users /etc, so they
> could edit the files by hand as themselves.
> 
> Needless to say this was not a good thing.
> 
> What is the quickest what to restore the owners and perms on the /etc
> directory under Redhat 5.2?
> 
> I am think it is
> 
> # rpm --setperms `rpm -qa`
> # rpm --setugids `rpm -qa`
> 
> Any way just to get the /etc directory instead of all packages?
> 
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