Hi,
On 10/23/2013 01:33 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
[...]
Hopefully he'll remember that using super user powers have to be made
with care :)
He will. :)
Is there anything like "rpm -V" on the debian toolset? I'm trying to
avoid "punishing him" (further) with reinstall...
It does not do any control (which is the role of rpm -V if I understood
correctly the man), but apt-get --reinstall might help. But if he did
the changes on /etc, it won't work, because configuration files won't be
modified ( it removes and installs, not purge and installs ).
I already did something along the lines of...
cd /var/cache/apt/archives
ls -1 *.deb | xargs sudo dpkg -Gi
(after manually fixing ownerships on sudo binaries, working dir's, and
config/data files)
... which apparently solves some of the problems, but is far from fixing
everything (ownerships of /etc and /var being just two examples).
I think you might have solutions, but what has been changed, exactly?
Software binaries in /usr? Configuration files in /etc? Other stuff in
/var?
Upon further investigation, here's what was done:
sudo chown -R <someuser>:<somegroup> /
Maybe simply changing back the perms and ownerships might be simpler, too.
Thought about it, but I have no reference to mimic (meaning: I have no
definite list of previous user and group ownerships to refer/compare to).
Guess I'll bite the bullet and reinstall the machine (with the added
advantage of solving other - unrelated - problems).
Thank you for your help,
Mário Barbosa
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