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Set default folder permissions

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October 23, 2005 at 19:02:51 Pacific
Specs: Fedora Core 4, 500mhz, 224mb

Hey, I kinda locked myself out of my computer.. I do have
root access, but all I can get to is terminal (fullscreen via
ctrl-alt-1) and X can not start... I know what the problem
is (restricted permission to all folders and every file to ALL
users but root)

So, the question: Is there a command to reset folder
read/write permissions to default?

Thank you!


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October 26, 2005 at 08:47:00 Pacific

The only real way would be to re-install all the apps or carry out the fedora setup again. You can change all your permissions recursively but some files need to have different permissions to others, eg /etc/sudoers needs permissions of 440 o=root g=root in order for sudo to work. Some other apps break too if certain files are world readable.

How come all the permissions changed? I hope you weren't logging in as root....?!?


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October 26, 2005 at 08:47:33 Pacific

....Oh, or you could restore from backup....

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November 2, 2005 at 18:52:34 Pacific

Hey, sorry it took so long to respond. I reinstalled FC4, works great, I love Linux :-)

Thanks


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