chmod 666 ///

[Andrew Parker]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Bruce Hyatt <brucejhyatt at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I carelessly executed "chmod 666 ///" from a terminal as su in a
>  user account. It caused various problems because of permissions,
>  of course.
>
>  I rebooted, logged into root and executed "chmod 777 ///" which
>  enabled me to log into my account but when I tried to start
>  xwindows I wound up with a blank screen. Same thing with root
>  account.
>
>  Anyone know what I can do to get back to "normal?"

Can't say I've tried it on every rpmm, but this may get some things
back to normal:

rpm -qa | xargs rpm ----setperms --setugids