I have a machine which all its system drive files e.g /etc/* /lib/* /home/* where moved to a storage system by mistake. Now I moved them back to their original places but I don't know how to set the permissions to the original one?
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There is no feasible way. You'll have to reinstall. – Pilot6 Aug 20 '19 at 12:36
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1I did it once too, so loaded another box with the same setup (may have been a restore from an older backup) and wrote a script to clone the permissions from the 'alternate' machine to the one I wanted to fix. It was a huge amount of [messy] work .. and re-install would be far quicker (and less heart-ache).. – guiverc Aug 20 '19 at 12:40