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TheIrish 12-11-2003 06:31 AM

URGENT messed with permissions... oops
 
Hi all,
I think I did some bad changes with permissions and now I get strange errors...
when I do man, for istance, I get
excecv: permission denied
when I use mail, I get
group mail [...] was not found [...]
where did I do wrong?
Thanks

Edit: ooo, no programs running with user change work... help!

trickykid 12-11-2003 07:42 AM

Well, what exactly did you do to change all permissions? Don't tell me you did the stupid thing of:

chmod -R 777 /

Did you? We need more details please, we can't guess what's wrong.

TheIrish 12-11-2003 07:58 AM

Thanks for the answer, but I discovered myself.
It mainly was some changes in the /etc/ and permission mistakes with the dotted files in the home directories


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