On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 01:02:13PM -0700, TB wrote: > As root I did > > chmod -R 704 tbu > > Unfortunately, inside the directory tbu there was a > link to /, so it attempted to chmod everything in my > filesystem. Now I cannot log in normally and samba has > stopped working.
IIRC, a recursive chmod should not follow symlinks unless the chmod calls the symlink directly. Not that this helps your situation, but more to understand why it happened. -Vince
