How to restore default Ownership for every folder in Linux.

RMLinux · 11-22-2008, 01:01 AM

Hi keen folks!

In file I use restorecon -v -R permission.

how about ownership?

is it included with restorecon command?

thank you.

acid_kewpie · 11-22-2008, 02:45 AM

No, restorecon is part of SELinux, which is very much seperate from standard filesystem attributes. here a set of files detail contexts for SELinux based on regular expressions of files and similar details. no such equivalent for files in general, where the data is not managed in the same way. you can possibly reinstall certain RPM's etc.

billymayday · 11-22-2008, 02:50 AM

It would make more sense to explain why you are trying to do this, and explain what you did to cause any problem.

You may be in for a reinstall if you made a big mistake.

RMLinux · 11-26-2008, 02:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by billymayday

It would make more sense to explain why you are trying to do this, and explain what you did to cause any problem.

You may be in for a reinstall if you made a big mistake.

actually I did a mistake.

I change my /var chmod -R 777 and chown root:root now many problem arise.

Is there any command to restore the original permission and ownership?

What I did I copied on my old linux but I am using RHEL4 and i try to copy permission and ownership in linux RHEL3.

HOW STUPID I AM!!! I KNOW THAT AM NEWBIE ON LINUX THAT'S WHY...

so anybody please help me to restore the original permission and ownership of /var

thank you...

jschiwal · 11-26-2008, 02:25 AM

You could try something like:
rpm -qVf /var/cache/cron
to detect which directories and files have bad permissions based on the rpm database.

Then with the package name:
rpm -qlv <package-name>
to list the contents of the package including the owner.group.