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From: fox@cs.mcgill.ca (Colin BRADLEY)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Help! I've think I've shot myself in the foot!
Date: 26 Feb 1994 15:18:41 GMT
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Alrighty.

	I'm running NetBSD-0.9, and I've run into some big trouble.

	Recently, I installed a new drive, and copied /usr over to it.
	During the process, I think I've screwed up the permissions, so 
	that *nothing* works properly (well, a few things do), most
	notably passwd...So I am having problem setting up user accounts,
	I can't do it (since the user couldn't change their own password).

	Is there a program out there, or even any general set of guidelines 
	that will describe the ownership/group/permissions characteristics
	of stuff in the /usr tree? This is the only thing I can think
	of that might be wrong...

	If anyone can help me out here, I would be greatly appreciative.

Regards, Colin.

-- 
Colin Bradley
fox@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
Ain't got no .sig.