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From: "Nelson, David \(ED, PAR&D\)" <David.Nelson2@astrazeneca.com>
To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 10:05:39 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D60AF2712C16D42A38076E52FD6E3D23F0C44@ukmcrdembx01.rd.astrazeneca.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dd0cef60701042104n420f1c75g2605adc6c5e701d9@mail.gmail.com>


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua Schmidlkofer [mailto:joshland@gmail.com]
> Sent: 05 January 2007 05:04
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; cliff@twisty-industries.com
> Subject: [gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions
> 
> 
> Hey, a customer on a hosted server did this today:
> 
> sudo chown -R lighttpd /
> 
> --
> 
> You can imagine that things are a little borked.  How do you fix this
> with Gentoo?
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
>   Joshua

rm -f /home/customer

;)

On a more serious note, I'd go with doing chow -R root / and of course then doing 

for i in 1,2,3,4,....... etc \
	chown -R customer$i /home/customer$i

You get the idea :>

David
Note: These views are my own, advice is provided with no guarantee of success. I do not represent anyone else in any emails I send to this list.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-05 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-05  5:04 [gentoo-user] Fix file system permissions Joshua Schmidlkofer
2007-01-05  5:55 ` Randy Barlow
2007-01-05  6:41 ` Iain Buchanan
2007-01-05 10:05 ` Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) [this message]
2007-01-05 23:03 ` Richard Cox
2007-01-07 21:09 ` Dan

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