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I tried to tab complete something and I guess it wasnt there. I know you are not supposed to set the permissions to /etc/ like that, but my permissions seem to be all messed up. whoami prints out cannot find name for user ID 1002 and I cannot cd into /etc/ anymore. passwd and shadow use 640 and 644 so I am not sure why this is a problem. Regardless, is there any way to fix this?
The command run was sudo chmod 644 /etc/
I have no name!@vpn-server:/$ whoami
whoami: cannot find name for user ID 1002
I have no name!@vpn-server:/$ cd etc
bash: cd: etc: Permission denied
I have no name!@vpn-server:/$ ls -al etc
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? .
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? ..
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? acpi
-????????? ? ? ? ? ? adduser.conf
I have no name!@vpn-server:/$ sudo su
sudo: can't open /etc/sudoers: Permission denied
Your question is very unclear. What exactly is the problem? Did someone type
chmod 644 /etc
? Did they add a-R
in there as well? What happened specifically? – UtahJarhead – 2012-10-08T03:02:11.477there was no -R. The command was: sudo chmod 644 /etc/ – Franz Payer – 2012-10-08T03:05:14.220