[luau] chmod link screwup kills samba, login

[MonMotha]

TB wrote:
> As root I did 
> 
> chmod -R 704 tbu
> 
> Unfortunately, inside the directory tbu there was a
> link to /, so it attempted to chmod everything in my
> filesystem. Now I cannot log in normally and samba has
> stopped working.
> 
> Okay, I am not expecting you guys to hand me the
> solution, but I really need a clue regarding where to
> start doing my homework.  The question I need to
> figure out is, which permissions do I need to change
> and what do I change them to? How do I go about
> investigating this?
> 
> Obviously I need to be able to log in. And getting
> samba working again is important. Right now I have it
> running off of a knoppix CD and I presume I can figure
> out how to mount my partitions rw & chmod things. I
> just need to figure out what to change and what to
> change it to.
> 
> Thanks in advance for even the most trivial or obscure
> clue.
> 
> TB

Reinstall.  Recovering from that kind of mess up is very difficult and will 
probably take more time and effor than reinstalling and making everything work 
right again.

root is not to be trifled with...

--MonMotha