[X-Unix] Re: Repair permissions on volume with no OS?

[Eric F Crist]

On Apr 5, 2005, at 5:56 PM, Albert Lunde wrote:

>> If you're not worried about the permissions being strict, a possible
>> solution would be to try the following command, substituting the
>> correct volume for what I have here:
>>
>> # sudo chmod -R 0777 /Volumes/all-my-files
>>
>> This will set rwxrwxrwx (Read, Write, and Execute permissions on ALL
>> files of that volume, recusively).
>
> That's a pretty big sledgehammer.  I'd be really, really, careful
> about trying that.
>
> It would tend to break Unix-derived software like sendmail,
> procmail, and Openssh sshd, which is security-minded and
> (properly) cares about some files being world- or group-writable.

If you read an earlier post, this is in regards to a data drive, not a 
drive with all that sensitive information on it.  He's also using the 
"ignore permissions" option, which essentially makes everything 0777, 
or at the least 0111.

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