[luau] chmod link screwup kills samba, login

[Vince Hoang]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 01:02:13PM -0700, 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.

IIRC, a recursive chmod should not follow symlinks unless the
chmod calls the symlink directly. Not that this helps your
situation, but more to understand why it happened.

-Vince