How do I regain acces to my linux partition?

[AljoshaNL]

Hi

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
I'm STUPID... Sorry for the uppercase, but I'm really. Look what I did:
When I still worked under root I made a dir in my user's home dir, so I always needed to acces it via su. But today I realized that it's not cool to be under su every time so I red through the permission's file on tuXfiles.org. Then I did the command

chmod 700 /*

NOO!!!! Typing super fast is accidently pressed the slash, which ruined my linux setup. I watched as everything smoothly crashed. The worst thing was that I couldn't launch another terminal, so I tryed everything to crash my X-server, but I failed. Reboot didn't work: I get al sort of complains about permissions....
Well, I have got a knoppix live CD...
I was able to mount my linux boot partitition, but it failed when trying to mount my 'user' partitition.
I tryed
1. ext2
2. ext3
3. reiserfs
4. gfs (but it said that the kernel didn't support it)
How can I regain acces to my /dev/hda3??
Eager for help :'(

PS:
Things I'm thinking of are e.g. getting acces via Windoze, or being informed about Fedora's file system (oh yeah my distro is Fedora Core 4)...

Aljosha :

[AljoshaNL]

Okay, fixed it by:

linux rescue in fedora boot cd

cd /mnt/sysimage

chmod 777 *

Is it a good idea to reïnstall my system? Every permission everywere isn ´t save is it?

[trickster]

To my understanding, Fedora uses Ext3 by default.
What error do you get when trying to mount it with Knoppix?


Otherwise, you can use thisto access the data from Windows.

[trickster]

Nevermind, see you got it.
I'd suggest reinstall. It might not be abig deal on a home computer, but it might bring weird quirks with some applications.

[AljoshaNL]

Ok, thanks for advice...
I think I'd try Ubuntu... According to the Distribution Chooser it's the best distro for me, heard nice sstuff about it

[qeed]

when you did chmod 700 /* to your partition,all it does is change the permissions of your / layout,not the subdirs,so all you need is a quickfix.
Default perms for / for mine(slackware) is 755 so...
chmod 755 /*
and change your /tmp to 1777
so...
chmod 1777 /tmp
this might vary on other distros(?)not sure,but it should work.

[Compunuts]

[quote author=trickster link=board=1;threadid=10743;start=0#msg96495 date=1129045725]
It might not be abig deal on a home computer, but it might bring weird quirks with some applications.
[/quote]I agree with not being a big deal if it's the home computer. But if you keep the permission of 777, then no quirks should surface since even the guest user can read your home's directory.

What I usually do is create another user, make sure that user is in sudoers file (for distros that use sudo such as Ubuntu) and delete your current user. Problem solved. No need to reinstall your whole OS.

[trickster]

I think most applications should work fine. But I think there are some that won't run if the application or a folder does not have a right assigned.

[AljoshaNL]

Now I got UBUNTU ;D
It's great... Like it much more than Fedora, especially hte extremely fast apt-get that works out-of-the box ... There's only one problem: Refresh rate is limited to 60 hz....

[LuckyLook]

I am a real newbie regarding the Penguin world . Tried to be smart, installed Ubuntu on a separate HD. While doing this, disconnected the other HDs where WinXP is the OS. As result I do not have a dual boot at all. Windows does not even "see" the new HD with Ubuntu on it and Ubuntu HD does not acknowledge the presence of other HDs. Wonder if there is any solution out of this quagmire so that I can eventually have a proper dual boot system?

Your help will be highly appreciated. Thanks.