plesk installation file and dir owners

[KamilG]

Today I made the most stupid mistake

I used chown on a root account for whole home directory. All file owners on my debian 5.0 has changed to root:root. Even system files...

And everything because small space...


Is there a schema of correct permissions and user owners for plesk installation? I have managed to make correct user owners for all of my vhost but i dont know how to set up correct owners for opt/psa

 

[IgorG]

I'm not sure about deb packages but you can reset the permissions of the all installed RPM packages

You need to use combination of rpm and a shell for loop command as follows:
for p in $(rpm -qa); do rpm --setperms $p; done
for p in $(rpm -qa); do rpm --setugids $p; done

Above command combination will reset all the permissions to the default permissions under CentOS / RHEL / Fedora Linux. Maybe you will find something similar for debs.
Also this article can be useful - http://kb.odin.com/en/6572

 

[KamilG]

Thank You for Your answer. Unfortunately it doesnt work that way for debian, but I got everything running. Not sure though if there will be no errors in the future as I dont know plesk permissions schema...

 

[IgorG]

Strange that deb hasn't something like setperms and setugids opitons as rpm.
I hope that all will work fine on your Plesk server.

 

[jmellon]

reset the permissions

I accidentally recursively change permissions on their root filesystem (Centos 5) and have come across this thread. In my research there is a contradiction to the solution stated above. Permissions corrections enacted by –setperms will get blown away by subsequent u/g corrections enacted by –setugids. Therefore

Run

for p in $(rpm -qa); do rpm –setugids $p; done

before

for p in $(rpm -qa); do rpm –setperms $p; done

Getting the order correct, and combining this into a one-liner, we have:

for p in $(rpm -qa); do rpm –setugids $p; rpm –setperms $p; done

Hope this helps

Citation: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/reset-rhel-centos-fedora-package-file-permission.html
Also see: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/476