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Not realizing what directory I was in, I did a "chmod 777 ." in /root. Now I would like to set the permissions for /root back to the default. Can someone please tell me the correct default permissions for /root? Should it be 700 ?

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  • I think file system have permission of 755.
    – Mitch
    Oct 30, 2013 at 19:02
  • Your question may be answered anyway - but I found this a while ago, and it may be helpful.
    – Wilf
    Oct 30, 2013 at 19:29

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drwx------   4 root     root      4096 okt 29 20:00 root

Files in /root/:

drwx------  4 root root 4096 okt 29 20:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 okt 25 22:34 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 3106 okt 28  2012 .bashrc
drwx------  4 root root 4096 okt 29 20:00 .config
drwx------  3 root root 4096 okt 29 20:00 .dbus
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  140 okt 28  2012 .profile
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  • do you need anything from .dbus and/or .config?
    – Rinzwind
    Oct 30, 2013 at 19:07

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