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Lockheed

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Registered: 2010-03-16

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[solved] System partition priviledges

By a mistake, I changed privileges (user:group) on all files/folders on my system partition and boot partition using

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER <Mount Point>

What should these be normally?

Last edited by Lockheed (2011-06-27 08:32:05)

tomk

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Re: [solved] System partition priviledges

"System partition" doesn't tell us anything. Was it your root filesystem? or a separate /home?

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Lockheed

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Re: [solved] System partition priviledges

I have two partitions:
1 = /
2 = /boot

Home is on /

I did this form ubuntu live cd so right now all permissions are:

Owner: ubuntu - Live session user
Group: ubuntu

Last edited by Lockheed (2011-06-26 11:19:05)

tomk

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Re: [solved] System partition priviledges

OK - chown everything back to root:root, then chown your home dir to username:users.