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Insodus 05-06-2010 08:57 PM
Resetting ownership
 
I accidentally chowned my whole filesystem to nobody:nogroup.

Stupid, I know.

I'm wondering if apt keeps a copy of the perms it set during installs like RPM does?

If not, is there any other way to restore the perms easily?

If not, does anyone have a quick screenshot of their root level perms on Debian Hardy? I can at least start with a chown -R of the top level dirs and see how close that gets me.

mark_alfred 05-06-2010 09:12 PM
Debian Hardy? "Hardy" is Ubuntu, not Debian.

evo2 05-06-2010 09:35 PM
Reinstalling the packages should fix most of the file ownership problems.

Something like the following could work:
Code:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall `dpkg -l | grep ^ii | awk '{ print $2 }'`
Evo2.


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