[cobalt-users] CHMod Stupidity

[web_design@xxxxxxx]

Hello,

Stupid question that's a result of a stupid action....

I was installing a search engine on my intranet server 
at work (a Qube 3) and was having some trouble.  One of 
our systems administrators came by and said that it was 
the result of incorrectly set permissions.  To solve 
this, he recursively chmod-ed the entire server (yes, 
from root) to 755 as I watched in horror.

Now our server is inaccessible for just about anything; 
I can't su over to root to change anything back because 
of a "groups" error.  (I also am new enough to linux 
that I'm not sure I know what to change it back to, but 
there's no way I'm asking the sys admin to work on 
it...).  Anyone know what to do before I start randomly 
trying things?

Thanks,
Sean