Subject: Re: Help: need to fix ownership of /var/...

From: Sherwood Botsford <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 13:04:27 -0600

On Wed, 21 Aug 1996 [email-masked] wrote:

> Reposting message with slight modifications as I haven't got any answer yet.
> -----
> Hi, 
> 
> Some files under /var and /usr are normally owned by root:systemgroup 
> were the string systemgroup above can be root, staff, adm , mail, news ...etc
> 
> Q: Will the bootup break something if the ownership of /var/... are set to 
> root:root instead? 

In a word, yes, or alternately, you will leave gapping security holes.
If you have a friend with a working linux box, ask him to
do a find / -ls > trashfile, and mail you the results.
You can then construct a script that reads this file, and executes
chmod/chown as appropriate.

Alternately, start over with a clean root file system.

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