[Discuss] su stopped working

[pw]

pw wrote:
> Murray Strome wrote:
> 
>>  However, if I did accidentally
>> use the chmod -R incorrectly, lots of things are probably incorrect. 
>> Anyway to fix them without reinstalling?
>>
>> Murray
> 
> 
> 
> Get someone you trust, who has the same distro,
> to dump their system wide file permissions into a text file.
> 
> cd /
> 
> find * -printf "%h/%n|%#m|%g" | grep root > text.txt
> 
> ie:
> 
> /full/file/path/filename|nnnn|root
> 
> where 'nnnn' is the numeric file permission for each file.
> 
> Then just run a script against the files listed to change
> permissions for each file.
> 
> 
> cat text.txt | awk -F "|" '{print "chmod "$2" "$1}' > fix.sh
> 
> sh fix.sh
> 
> 
> With a little tweaking you could also change the ownership of
> files and directories if those are bad as well.
> 
> 
> Peter
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ERRATA:

find * -printf "%h/%n|%#m|%g\n" | grep root > text.txt
          forgot the newline ^^


Peter