Reverting back the defaul Ownerships

anand · 05-03-2001, 07:47 AM

Hi,

Accidentally I have changed the ownership from the root dir (/) to a different user of the same group.
eg. on '/' I did : chown -R xuser:root .

Now, I am not even able to login /su as root.
It says, 'su: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted'

Also I am unable to change the ownership back to root on any files/directory.

Can anybody help me with suggestions to revert back to the default ownership on all.

thanks in advance,
anand ...

raz · 05-04-2001, 04:47 AM

You could use a boot disk then re-mount the harddisk and change the ownership of the directory back to normal.

Next time if you really want to destroy your system quicker use #rm -r -f, not so painful it just dies quickly.

/Raz