OT: Fixing permissions on OpenServer 6

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Thu Jan 18 09:09:29 PST 2007


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).

But when sshd complained about the permissions on /etc/ssh/privsep/, I
took a closer look.

And found that someone had inadvertantly done their 

chown -R filepro .
and
chmod -R 777 .

... in /, instead of /appl/filepro.

Not as impressive as a couple of my *own* recursion fiascos -- the
machine is still running :-) -- but pretty snazzy nonetheless.

fixmog and custom don't fix *enough*.

Is there some other OS level permission fixer that I don't know about?
Custom *used* to know how to fix the permission of every file it had
ever installed, but -- even having run it in thorough mode -- I don't
see that it has this time.

It's *running*, but I'd still like to clean it up some.

Cheers,
-- jra
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