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Restore Solaris Back To Default Permissions

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Restore Solaris Back To Default Permissions

by  coffeysm  Posted    (Edited  )
Ever have someone perform a chmod 777 .*, chown -R *, etc... here is how to fix it without reinstalling or restoring from tape. You do need root access either locally or remotely though.

Almost all packages installed on a Solaris machine have their settings kept in one file. It is /var/sadm/install/contents.

Code: 
cd /var/sadm/install

# Remove = signs and all /devices entries--

egrep -v "=|devices" contents > contents.new

# This command might fail stating "to many fields record number XXX" then you will have to vi contents.new, type :xxx and delete all the SUNW entries all we care about is fields 1,4,5, and 6.

awk '{print $1,$4,$5,$6}' contents.new > contents.new2

# Replace all white spaces with :
sed 's/ /:/g/' contents.new2 > contents.new

vi restore_perms

Create Script with the following:
#!/bin/sh
#########################################################
     for FILE in `cat /var/sadm/install/contents.new`
       do
                FNAME=`echo $FILE | awk -F: '{print $1}'`
                PERM=`echo $FILE | awk -F: '{print $2}'`
                OWNR=`echo $FILE | awk -F: '{print $3}'`
                GRP=`echo $FILE | awk -F: '{print $4}'`

                echo "chown $OWNR:$GRP $FNAME"
                  chown $OWNR:$GRP $FNAME
                echo "chmod $PERM $FNAME"
                  chmod $PERM $FNAME
       done
rm contents.new
# End
#########################################################

chmod 555 restore_perms

./restore_perms
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