CHMOD Big Oops!

[Frank Sorenson]

David D Turley wrote:
> Ok, lets say I "accidently" executed the command:
>  
> chmod -R 777 .
>  
> from the root directory.  What do I need to do to re-secure my system and
> undo this big oops?  
>  
> System: Debian - Etch
>  
> Thanks!
>  
> Dave

I'd look into writing something that takes the output of:
rpm -qa --queryformat "[%{FILENAMES} %{FILEMODES:perms}\n]"

which looks like this:
/usr/share/a2ps/encoding/iso1.edf -rw-r--r--
/usr/share/a2ps/encoding/iso10.edf -rw-r--r--
/usr/share/a2ps/encoding/iso13.edf -rw-r--r--
...

and fixes the permissions as necessary.

Oh, wait.  You've got Debian?  Well, since .deb is so much better than 
rpm, I'm sure there's an equivalent functionality.

Frank