Re: System permissions fix utility

From: Williamson, Alan (alan.williamson_at_SIEMENS.COM)
Date: 10/29/03

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    Date:         Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:23:43 -0000
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    Actually in AIX 5.2 there is a an option to restore some or all of the
    metadata but NOT the file contents. Used to fix this very scenario.

    I believe it is restore -Pa to restore permissions.

    Not sure whether this is in 5.1 though.

    Alan

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Green, Simon [mailto:Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM]
    > Sent: 29 October 2003 09:55
    > To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    > Subject: Re: System permissions fix utility
    >
    >
    > There's nothing built in to AIX that'll do it. What are you
    > using on your
    > other UNIXs?
    >
    > Several people have come up with their own tools to do it but
    > all of these
    > rely on taking a snap-shot of the "good" system in advance.
    >
    > Do you know what command was run that messed things up? If
    > so, you ought to
    > be able to determine those files which might have been
    > affected and check
    > them on another, good system.
    >
    > Otherwise, you could be looking at a restore.
    >
    > Simon Green
    > Altria ITSC Europe Ltd
    >
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    >
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    >
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    >
    > > -----Original Message-----
    > > From: Randy Styka [mailto:comp-sun!aix-list@COMPGATE.COMPUTRON.COM]
    > > Sent: 28 October 2003 19:04
    > > To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    > > Subject: System permissions fix utility
    > >
    > >
    > > Hi!
    > >
    > > Through a stupid typo, we managed to mess up permissions on files
    > > all over the system. We've put them back so the system is running
    > > fine, but we'd like to restore them to their proper settings.
    > >
    > > On many of our other Unix boxes, there is a utility that checks
    > > and repairs the permissions on system files. I can't find a similar
    > > utility for this AIX box (aix 5.1). Is there such a command???
    >

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