A few minutes ago I forgot removing one interspace in the terminal. This ended up in wrong file and dir permissions for just everything.
The story:
A Samba update was installed and I needed to reshare a folder. But to do that I had to be owner. So I did:
You see the mistake? I think everything is on my username now. Ofcourse very bad for the security.Code:sudo chown -hR myusername / Media
So, I tried:
But got:Code:sudo chown -hR root / Media
So, I did this in recovery mode:Code:sudo: /etc/sudoers is owned by uid 1000, should be 0
Sudo was restored.Code:chown root:root /etc/sudoers chmod 440 /etc/sudoers
Again I tried:
This time it worked, but as you can guess: Everything was root then. So I didn't had any rights. My account was useless.Code:sudo chown -hR root / Media
Booted again to recovery and did:
With this done my account was working again, but STILL the system isn't stable as it was before.Code:sudo chown -hR myusername /home
When starting for example 'networking' from the 'Admin' menu I get: "You are not allowed to access the system configuration"
I know much more is still not working so future problems are also a fact.
(http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=50701 could be (almost) the same, but a solution is missing there.)
Network connections are broken too.
How do I restore this without losing anyting on the harddisks?
Is there a special command to restore everything?
(Note that this is a server running on Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. Please, don't tell me to run the server version, I already know but I'm new at Linux and I'm starting with desktop.)
17:54
Ok, still no reply. Like I said it's a server so it should be running now.
My goals is having the important stuff up before I got to sleep.
I'll try mounting EXT3 in windows. Then backup, then reinstall.
Please, don't see it as solved now. More people are waiting for a solution.
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