Unix ownerships got messed(very urgent please)..

mahamkali · 01-02-2005, 12:50 AM

Hi ,
I use Fedora Core 2 linux. I accidentally changed ownerships all of the entire unix directories and files to my local account(not root) and then I changed again the ownership to root except that I issued local account ownership only to my /home/xxxx directories. Now my mail server is not working and I cannot do a "su -" to login as root.

Can any one help me to restructure the entire permissions back. This is very critical to me.

thanks in advance.

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Capt_Caveman · 01-02-2005, 02:50 AM

Boot with your installation disks into rescue mode. Then do rpm -qa --setperms which should fix the permission problems for all system files. For your user home directories or any files you've added, you'll need to manually fix those. Probably a good example of why you need to be really careful when making changes as root, especially with permissions.