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I'm installing mysql for a website project, but while following the installation procedure I accidentally did "sudo chown -R mysql . " at /usr/local/ instead of at /usr/local/mysql/". Whoops. I'm ...
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  1. 06-01-2009 #1
    aidanb
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    accidentally changed permissions, how to fix?

    I'm installing mysql for a website project, but while following the installation procedure I accidentally did "sudo chown -R mysql . " at /usr/local/ instead of at /usr/local/mysql/".
    Whoops. I'm kind of nervous about this.. how big a deal is this, and how can I fix my mistake?
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    It's probably a good idea to chown back to root and then fix what you need after that ... just my opinion but making anything other than root owner of a /usr/local does not sound like the right thing to do ...
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  3. 06-02-2009 #3
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    ok, I'll set it back to root, I guess stuff will yell at me if I need to give other "users" permissions. I was just annoyed because it was even recursive...
    Thanks for your reply, I appreciate the help!
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