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Old 05-15-2009
chmod 777 * - oops

I can belive I really did this... chmod 777 /home Smilie

I have my /home directory synced to another machine.

Can anyone tell me how to get the permissions from
back up server /home to production server /home

It's important that I dont over write the files on the production server.

Please dont guess on this one!

Thanks!!!!!!
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Old 05-15-2009
If you only did:
Code:
# chmod 777 /home

then that will be the only directory changed, if you did:
Code:
# chmod -R 777 /home

then all the subdirectories will have changed as well.
So all you have to do is an:
Code:
# ls -ld /home

on the correct system and copy the permissions. On my Linux machine /home is drwxr-xr-x which one would achieve with:
Code:
# chmod 755 /home

 
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