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What to do after 'chmod -R 777 /'? [duplicate]
I have many file permission problems, as being a newbie, I unfortunately set permissions on everything somehow to 777 (chmod -R 777 /). I believe I've done this from the root directory logged in as ...
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Can't log in although password is correct
Im fairly new to ubuntu so bear with me on this. I was doing an assignment for my CSCI 323 class that required Manually adding a new user and my problem came about after I followed these instructions:
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Why can root still edit files with a permission of 0?
I just wanted to delete most files from an external HD except some certain ones. So I chmod these ones to 0 and did a sudo rm -r ./*. Painfully, the result was that everything got deleted.
Why is ...
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Cannot use sudo command, changed permission of /usr folder [duplicate]
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How to get back SUDO into working condition?
Here's how I messed up my ubuntu, I wanted to change file permissions of /usr folder and I did that by taking root privilege
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I just recursively chmod'd everything under / to 750. Any tips?
I won't be the first and I won't be the last, I suppose. While playing around with the find command, I made a whoops and it would appear that instead of changing the permissions of the ~/web directory ...
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How to fix sudo after “chmod -R 777 /usr/bin”?
I enetered chmod -R 777 /usr/bin and now sudo is not working.
It is giving error that sudo must be setuid root.
On looking via Google, some advice said to run chown root:root /usr/bin/sudo
chmod ...
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Changing the permissions in root files without sudo from recovery
Hi I recently killed my etc folder by running:
sudo chmod etc 417.
Due to sudo being in that folder it cannot be accesed now, so I have to change the permissions back to the correct ones using the ...
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Add user that can read / write a root, www-data files
How can I do that?
I got user amira on my Ubuntu 11.4, I want him to able to see / read / write a root user files such as /etc/* and apache files
