Resetting ownership

Insodus · 05-06-2010, 08:57 PM

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.