[cobalt-developers] screwed up file ownership and permissions

[Rob Montgomery <Rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My client uses a RAQ4, and while trying to fix ownership of some files on his
machine, he did a chown -R as root and royally screwed up the machine.  I've
managed to fix the ownership for most things, so the server in general is at
least working fine, but there are still some weird things going on.

1.  I cannot su to root when initially logged in as another user, I get this
    error:

     su: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted

2.  Users cannot login to their virtualhost admin sites.  I can log into the
    main server admin but, going to a virtual host's admin always gets the
    username/password rejected, even though I know its correct.  I can ssh
    in successfully with those username/passwords, I just cant access the
    admin web-interface.  Even when creating a new admin the same problem
    exists.

Everything in /etc/ is pretty much owned by root.root, so, I'm not sure what
would be causing the su problem. Any ideas?

The admin sites problem might be related to the su problem, or it might just be
a permission problem for the password file that the webserver reads, wherever
that is.  I cant seem to find any htaccess style password files though the
known site admin usernames, just the /etc/passwd file, which I'm not sure how
they could be using that though with htaccess style user/pass authentication.

So, I'm assuming there's a ownership/permission problem somewhere still.
Can someone do a `find . -ls` on a couple directories and send me the output
so I can see what the ownership/perms should be?  I'm thinking the /usr/admserv
directory might help and also a /home/sites/siteXX directory ?    Delete any
files that are sensitive, webpages, etc...  I just want to see the standard
config files for the cobalt setup... Any other directories that might contain
files that the web-interface will need to read/write to?

I'll take any ideas you have! Thanks.

Rob