[luau] chmod link screwup kills samba, login
Vince Hoang
luau at ml.altern8.net
Tue Apr 15 18:40:01 PDT 2003
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
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