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enzipher
Joined: 18 May 2011
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| Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 7:00 am Post subject: Accidentally changed group at root level |
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Hi all,
I believe i messed things up and would greatly appreciate some input...
I wanted to change group on a directory in public_html but instead ran the command at root level, recursively of course. I got a few "Operation not permitted" errors, but most files and directories now has the group www-data.
This is the command that was executed:
Code: # chgrp -R www-data /srv/www/example.com/public_html/media *
Is this a FUBAR situation, ie start from scratch or can I rectify this somehow by setting the group to root recursively or something?
Thanks, |
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theckman
Joined: 27 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 7:12 am Post subject: |
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| Was this command ran as root? |
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KyleXY
Joined: 27 May 2011
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| Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 7:12 am Post subject: |
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| Assuming you ran this command as the root user, you're s*** out of luck. Time for a backup and reimage of your Linode. |
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hoopycat
Joined: 30 Aug 2008
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Location: Rochester, New York
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| Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 8:33 am Post subject: |
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Create a Linode in the same datacenter, restore your latest good backup to it, boot up the rescue mode, then:
Code: backup# find / -xdev -printf "chgrp %g %p\n" > /tmp/doh.sh
Copy /tmp/doh.sh over to your broken node and:
Code: failboat# sh /tmp/doh.sh
It should get most everything. You'll want to check for the stragglers with:
Code: failboat# find / -xdev -group www-data
If you don't have a backup, you're FUBAR. |
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rsk
Joined: 24 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 9:30 am Post subject: |
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Wow, that's a nice trick, hoopycat... gotta remember this.
(Yes, I do backups.) |
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jebblue
Joined: 23 May 2010
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| Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 12:24 pm Post subject: |
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hoopycat wrote:
Code: backup# find / -xdev -printf "chgrp %g %p\n" > /tmp/doh.sh
That is an amazing trick, very cool, will have to remember that. |
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hoopycat
Joined: 30 Aug 2008
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Location: Rochester, New York
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| Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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| I suppose I might as well mention that I haven't actually tried this, so it may or may not work. But it looks like it does. (find is generally amazing.) |
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enzipher
Joined: 18 May 2011
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 2:51 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the replies. The answers were pretty much what I expected, although I had hoped for something else. As it stands I just signed up with Linode and got things up an running, so backups are nonexisting. For the data it's no problem, it's just that I have to redo the setup all over again, but I guess that is a good learning experience.
That I used the root account was a correct assumption by the way.
Anyways, thanks again. I am sure I will have reasons to come back to the forums, which I have actually followed since I sign up. Despite the setback I am really happy with Linode and the service. Everything went really smooth up until yesterday.
Cheers |
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