Re: chmod -R 777 *

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at netaktiv.com>]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 07:41:06AM +0200,
 Sarathiel Chaipa <schaipa at prohealth.co.zw> wrote 
 a message of 20 lines which said:

> Please help, I have a client who ran chmod -R 777 * from the root directory
> on Linux Redhat 6.1 ( / ). How can I reverse or correct the permissions to
> their original settings.

Restoring the backups (you do backups, don't you?) seem the only
serious way. Even the validation feature of rpm will not help: it does
not cover /home for instance.

Removing root access to this person is a good idea for the future,
too. Or you can say that, from now, he will be careful when running as
root :-)

Other good lesson: never log in as root.

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