Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:24:20 05/09/01
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On May 09, 2001 at 18:58:28, Slater Wold wrote: >I recently installed Linux on a spare computer, to run crafty from. I know very >little about Linux. > >I was having a problem running crafty, and asked a friend what to do. (He isn't >an expert, but knows more than me.) He told me to type (as root, from root) >"chmod 777 * .* -R". I did. > >Now I can see that the groups are ALL messed up, and what's worse is, when I try >to become root, login as root, su someone (su - soinso), or chmod, chown, chgrp, >anything, I cannot. Says, "Unable to set group; operation is prohibited." In >other words, I CANNOT LOGIN AS ROOT. My whole system is basically frozen as far >as doing ANYTHING. I've talked to several people, and NO ONE can help. > >Please help! > > >Slate Tell your friend he doesn't know what he is doing. :) several files are setuid root. You removed that permission with your 777 chmod command. It is _possible_ that linuxconf will be able to restore the setuid programs to their right permissions. It might take a re-ihstall to make things right. if nothing else, you now have no file security of any kind, which is not smart..
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