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Help, I created a permissions disaster with chown
Post 302523026 by alterego55 on Tuesday 17th of May 2011 02:04:51 PM
05-17-2011
Thanks Jim, let me provide more info.
Before I tried any of this, I added myself to the root group.
sudo gpasswd -a me root
That didn't work, and now I think I know why, group permissions probably didn't have the access level I needed.
I didn't create a tar backup. I used the following:
sudo cp -r mysite mysite.bak
When I checked the mysite.bak folder it retained the root root user/group so I thought I was good. Obviously not.
I really don't know how to run the Gnome instance as root. AWS uses digital signatures with private keys and I can't log in using any other name.
I'll try tinking around a bit as you suggested because I will learn a bit more, but then I'll probably revert to a backup snapshot from two days ago.
Thanks for your help. I learned from you I need to create a tar backup in any future similar scenarios.
sudo gpasswd -a me root
That didn't work, and now I think I know why, group permissions probably didn't have the access level I needed.
I didn't create a tar backup. I used the following:
sudo cp -r mysite mysite.bak
When I checked the mysite.bak folder it retained the root root user/group so I thought I was good. Obviously not.
I really don't know how to run the Gnome instance as root. AWS uses digital signatures with private keys and I can't log in using any other name.
I'll try tinking around a bit as you suggested because I will learn a bit more, but then I'll probably revert to a backup snapshot from two days ago.
Thanks for your help. I learned from you I need to create a tar backup in any future similar scenarios.
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