OT: Fixing permissions on OpenServer 6

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 06:20:07PM -0500, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> Jay R. Ashworth propounded (on Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 12:09:29PM -0500):
> | I'm working on setting up sshd on a client's OpenServer 6 system.  Not
> | having been able to find a supplied init script or any commented-out
> | references to it in the /etc tree, I was just going to go ahead with
> | plugging it into /etc/rc manually; probably in S88tcp (or whatever
> | we're calling that this month).
> 
> Sshd is enabled by default on OSR 6 -- what did you think you needed to
> change or add?

I found that out later.  I'd expected it to have it's own initscript,
rather than to be in S85tcp.  As it happens, though, it was failing to
start because it's config file was not owned by root -- which was
because someone had inadvertantly done a chown -R filepro *in the root
directory*, rather than in the /appl or /appl/filepro directory.

chmod -R 777, too.

I was amazed the machine was still running.

No, I won't say whose it was.  :-)

And as it happens, it's much harder to fix that that I'd expected.

Cheers,
-- jra
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