[luau] chmod link screwup kills samba, login

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Tue Apr 15 11:35:01 PDT 2003


On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 11:17, MonMotha wrote:
> 
> 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
> 

I am in agreement.  If I accidentally changed the permissions on
everything in my filesystem I personally would boot from a rescue CD,
take backups in any way possible and reinstall.  It just isn't worth the
time and effort to fix permissions on thousands of directories and files
manually.

Warren Togami
warren at togami.com





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