[Sunhelp] Urgent help needed!

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 01:45:35PM +1100, Melinda Taylor wrote:
> Hello,
> I stupidly changed all the ownerships of the files in the /bin
> directory (don't ask me how/why it was an accident ;)
> I now can't 'su'. The current permission/ownership is as follows:
> -r-s--x--x   1 bin      sys        18360 Jan 16  1998 /bin/su*
> When I know it should be something like this:
> -r-sr-xr-x   1 root     sys        18360 Jan 16  1998 su*
> I have other solaris machines so I was thinking I could maybe
> just copy over the 'su' proggie from there but that doesn't seem to work.
> Or maybe something even worse has happened (ie my machines are
> always being attacked)? 
> Any suggestions as to my next step?
> Thanks,
> Melinda

Print out a copy of "ls -la" in the /bin directory on another box, and
manually fix the permissions on all the files in /bin by hand (that is, if
"chmod" isnt too messed up to function . . . )

Bill

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