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I need default rwx values for /var /usr =/

hey got a problem i backuped up /usr /var with just cp -R then recreated the parition then moved back all the files, but i guess when i backuped it up it didnt preserve the originial rwx/ownership modes so now the rwxrwxrwx modes are all messed up, and i cant run certain programs, only root can and ive been using chmod u+s program without really knowing what setuid does till i just saw that it changes the process id as root so thats not good =/ so yeah i need to restore the orginail default values for /usr /var and all the subdirectories, does anyone know where i can that info from or possibly could someone post here a ls -al /usr and /var or any other ideas? thanks

Maybe I shouldn't do this due to security, but what the hell. It'll be hard for you to match all the perms, but here you go http://magi.tldp.ca/files/var.tar.bz2 http://magi.tldp.ca/files/usr.tar.bz2

Re: I need default rwx values for /var /usr =/

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Originally posted by dmx9595
hey got a problem i backuped up /usr /var with just cp -R then recreated the parition then moved back all the files, but i guess when i backuped it up it didnt preserve the originial rwx/ownership modes so now the rwxrwxrwx modes are all messed up, and i cant run certain programs, only root can and ive been using chmod u+s program without really knowing what setuid does till i just saw that it changes the process id as root so thats not good =/ so yeah i need to restore the orginail default values for /usr /var and all the subdirectories, does anyone know where i can that info from or possibly could someone post here a ls -al /usr and /var or any other ideas? thanks

I once came across this script, googling. It restores the permissions
on a file-system in Slack from the MANIFEST.gz file of your installation
CD ;)

Code:

#!/bin/sh

#smprms

#Create a script to restore the filesystem permissions from the MANIFEST (stdin)

#



about_text='

# Author:  Cameron Kerr

# Email:    cameron.kerr@paradise.net.nz

# Website:  http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/

# Version:  27 August 2001'



if [ $# -ne 0 ]; then

  echo "USAGE: zcat MANIFEST.gz | `basename $0` > /tmp/longscript.sh" >&2

  echo "      su - (if not root already)" >&2

  echo "      /tmp/longscript.sh" >&2

  exit 255

fi  



echo "#!/bin/sh"

echo "#This script was generated by `basename $0` from a Slackware MANIFEST.gz"

echo "#It will restore permissions to all files listed in the MANIFEST.gz,"

echo "#even files not there, so you might like to filter out 'not found'"

echo "#messages"

echo "#"

echo "#About the generator ${about_text}"



cat | sed -e '

/^++==*/d

/^||/d

/^ *$/d

/^[-dlcbps]/{

  s/^\(.*\) \(.*\)\/\(.*[^ ]\)  *.* .* .*  *\(.*\)$/\

chown \2.\3 \/\4\

chmod PERM\1PERM \/\4/

  /PERM.*PERM/{

    s/PERM.\(...\)\(...\)\(...\)PERM/u=PERM\1PERM,g=PERM\2PERM,o=PERM\3PERM/

  }

  /PERM.*[^ ]PERM/{

    s/-//g

  }

  s/PERM//g

}

'

It shouldn't be too hard to make it modify only the ones under a given
subdirectory...

Cheers,
Tink

hmm this is not good after running that script i now get permission denied for anyone other then root while trying to access basic programs like ls or touch but looking at the permissions of /bin and /bin/ls for example seem correct i have r and x permission for all users
damn this sucks i think i might actually wipe everything and reinstall slack, i was thinking of doing that before to install current instead of 9.1 so this might actually just push me to do that =/ i also wanted to try LFS first but looks like ill just reinstall slack probably

oh wait rather it was i couldnt ls or touch in the directories i was in, which i should be able to

If the permissions on the executables are OK
check the permissions on the libraries they
require ...

E.g. if bash gives you permission denied,
check
ldd /bin/bash | cut -d" " -f 3 | xargs ls -l

Remember, this is linux, as long as it is reachable,
it can be fixed ;)

Cheers,
Tink

true yeah i know its not like linux to just reinstall but this is a ugly problem cause all of /usr and /var permissions are messed up and i cant really track every file/dir one by one or something, not too sure what else to do

The alternative is not to re-install Slack but just reinstall all
packages. That will preserve all your settings, "new" versions of
config-files would be called xxx.new

mount slack-cdrom
upgradelpkg --reinstall /<cdrom>/slackware/*/*.tgz

Cheers,
TInk