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dragos240

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Registered: 2009-05-23

Posts: 189

Reseting permissions on my archbox.

Hi everyone,

I was setting permissions for the root directory, so that nobody could access it but root. I didn't think of the possibility that none of the other users besides root could login. Now /bin/bash will not execute for anyone else . So root is the lone survivor. Is there a way to reset the permissions with chmod? Or another tool?

tlvb

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2008-10-06

Posts: 297

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Re: Reseting permissions on my archbox.

Did you do it recursively? I think this is one of the ways to mess up a linux system to the point that it is easier to reinstall, but I might confuse chown and chmod here.

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dragos240

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Registered: 2009-05-23

Posts: 189

Re: Reseting permissions on my archbox.

Did you do it recursively? I think this is one of the ways to mess up a linux system to the point that it is easier to reinstall, but I might confuse chown and chmod here.

I did this damage in gnome under root nautilus, changing the other permissions from read only, to no access. And I also clicked apply permissions throughout folders or something, but I stopped it midway. This is all I know I did.

AdrenalineJunky

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Registered: 2009-05-03

Posts: 149

Re: Reseting permissions on my archbox.

chmod o+r /directory