how to restore my files permissions ?

Punker51 · 12-05-2003, 01:26 AM

damn i broke it

i set bad permissions on /var
sinc then , the os freeze each 1 or 2 hours and my sshd isnt working anymore...i guess there is more thing i didnt notice too

thats pretty annoying

is there anyway i can restore the default permissions for the whole partition ? /var

i saw this question posted a couple of times...but with no answer
do i have to réinstall Mandrake 9 ?

i dont want to set everything to chmod 755 i guess it would cause a security lack

any suggestions ?

jkobrien · 12-05-2003, 05:24 AM

Did you change the permissions recursively?

On my system, pretty much everything at the top level in var is rwxr-xr-x, except gdm which is rwxr-x---, lock is rwxrwxr-x, and tmp is rwxrwxrwt.

John