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hello all,
I'm absolut beginner and have stupidly changed the owner of 'etc' to www-data(gid33) - now I have no permission to it and not allowed to change it back ...
- 07-16-2010 #1Just Joined!
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ownership 'etc'
hello all,
I'm absolut beginner and have stupidly changed the owner of 'etc' to www-data(gid33) - now I have no permission to it and not allowed to change it back to root. what should I do?
tnx
- 07-16-2010 #2forum.guy
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Hello and welcome!
I don't know if it will work, but you could try booting a liveCD such as Parted Magic and change permissions on it from there. Let us know how it goes.oz
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- 07-16-2010 #3Just Joined!
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ok I will try it, thanks


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