Re: [cobalt-users] I'm an idiot - please help me

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Chris Moreton wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm afraid I have done something amazingly bad.  
I have executed the command chown -R 755 * as 
root as part of a cron script I was writing, 
thereby causing the owner of almost everything to become "755".  

Neat trick ;) You don't win the prize tho, i still keep that for mkfs'ing
/

As carrie said, where did you do this? if you were in / you have a bit of
a problem -/

since your machine rebooted tho, i'm gonna hazard a guess you were in
home.

Quick, dirty, will only more or less fix for email...

cd /home/spool/mail
for i in *;do chown $i $i;done
chown root .
chown root 1

(because the name of the mail folder is more or less the username of who
owns it, cept long usernames break  it)

Fixing sites will probably take a little script programming ;)
The home directories in the passwd file will give you a reasonable default
for who owns what where, tho cgi's are gonna all be hosed tho...

If you say frontpage i'll , um...

and apache isn't gonna be happy till the owner on /home and the top level
sites is right...(755 isn't a member of any group ;)

*(Exactlly what this should be depends on what raq ;)

gsh