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colonelmo

Member

From: Tehran, Iran

Registered: 2015-11-06

Posts: 21

/usr/lib/ Ownership and permissions

Hello.

I accidentally

chmod 777 -R && chown myusername -R

'd

/usr/lib/

instead of

/usr/lib/go/bin

and there are some issues that I would like to know how to solve. I would appreciate it if anyone could help.
Naturally

/usr/lib/sudo

reacted to the wrong

setuid bit

and I had to login as root to work around that one. What I'm asking is, are there any other potential issues? (say with xorg because of the files permission levels)
Second, I had to log in using another tty because

su -

won't work (Authentication failed). What is causing that?

Thanks in advance.

loafer

Member

From: the pub

Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 1,772

Re: /usr/lib/ Ownership and permissions

"su" is probably failing because the ownership and permissions of the libs belonging to util-linux are now incorrect.  Most stuff under /usr/ should be owned by root.  I would imagine there are now many potential issues with broken applications etc.

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