fat-fingered directories (solaris 2.6

From: Bruntel, Mitchell L, ALABS (mbruntel@att.com)
Date: Tue Jan 28 2003 - 10:20:10 EST


Ok. I could have should have most absolutely should NOT have logged out of
this system, but it's down.

1) I was on as root, (but thought I was on as myself), and did a " chown -R
myself:staff * " on what I thought was my directory, but was unfortunately
root directory.

I interrupted the command when I realized, but too late.

i can no longer reliably log into the machine as root unless I go into init S
(which I can seem to only do reliably when I am doing a boot cdrom)

I broke out of the boot cd, and entered single user fine.
did a fsck, and mounted old /root as /tmp/root, etc.
but wouldnt let me chown back.

Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong?
Thank heavens it's not a major machine for me.

thanks again

Oh. Solaris 2.6 on a Sparc 4200
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