Topic: I am an Idiot... permission problems please help

[Markus]

Hi !

I have a big problem with the permissions of the /home directory.

I wantet to change the permissions in a user home directory. I was in the
Users home directory when i wrote: chown username:groupname /home

I known that this was a big mistake but @!#$ happens I need to know how i can restore the original permissions on the /home directory and the subdirectories...

A nother idea is that someone woult write me the permissions of his/her /home directory and the standard directories.

Please help me quick.

Thanks!
Markus

[Ergin]

Hi there !
Step one - rights under /home/e-smith/files/users/

[root@erginsme01 root]# cd /home/e-smith/files/users/
[root@erginsme01 users]# ls -al
total 36
drwxr-xr-x    9 root     root         4096 Aug 24 21:42 .
drwxr-xr-x    7 root     root         4096 Jun 26 22:15 ..
drwxr-xr-x    4 admin    admin        4096 Jul 14 22:32 admin
drwx------    5 denise   denise       4096 Aug 23 10:19 denise
drwx------    8 ergozd   ergozd       4096 Aug 24 13:26 ergozd
drwx------    5 eric     hakan         4096 Aug 23 10:19 hakan
drwx------    6 forward  forward      4096 Aug 23 10:19 forward

Step 2

[root@erginsme01 users]# cd hakan
[root@erginsme01 hakan]# ls -al
total 24
drwx------    5 hakan    hakan        4096 Aug 23 10:19 .
drwxr-xr-x    9 root     root         4096 Aug 24 21:42 ..
drwxr-xr-x    2 hakan    hakan        4096 Aug 15 18:35 home
drwx------    2 hakan    hakan        4096 Aug 23 10:15 Mail
drwxr-xr-x    7 hakan    hakan        4096 Aug 23 10:15 Maildir
-rw-r--r--    1 hakan    hakan         416 Aug 15 18:40 .qmail
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     admin           6 Aug 15 18:35 .qmail-default -> .qmail

and step 3

[root@erginsme01 hakan]# cd home
[root@erginsme01 home]# ls -al
total 8
drwxr-xr-x    2 hakan    hakan        4096 Aug 15 18:35 .
drwx------    5 hakan    hakan        4096 Aug 23 10:19 ..


Hope it helps...

[Derek]

Hi,

Have you tried this?
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-upgrade
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event reboot

Might auto-magically redo all permissions.

[Krusty]

Derek sounds like he is on the right idea for a quick fix as e-smith is notorious for resetting itself after these commands are applied. So i reckon it will work if not it is worth a try

[Markus]

many many many thanks..... this was nearly to easy but it worked fine....