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How to repair permissions in Ubuntu? - JEBB - 04-21-2009
I still haven't put OSX on my Dell Mini 9 and am running it with Ubuntu 8.0.4. Since underneath Ubuntu and OSX are versions of Unix, I would expect the same housekeeping should be done. After installing the latest version of Adobe Flash Player (see earlier post) on my Mac I repaired permissions and it gave a long list of permissions repaired. I assume the same thing should be done with Linux but I don't know how. Does anyone here know how to do that?
Re: How to repair permissions in Ubuntu? - TheTominator - 04-21-2009
JEBB wrote:
I assume the same thing should be done with Linux but I don't know how.
No, "repair permissions" is only a Mac OS X thing. There is no corresponding Linux housekeeping task.
Re: How to repair permissions in Ubuntu? - freeradical - 04-21-2009
$ man chmod
Re: How to repair permissions in Ubuntu? - Doc - 04-21-2009
OS X keeps records of file and folder permissions set by Apple installers. To the best of my knowledge, there is no similar record-keeping feature in Ubuntu.
Re: How to repair permissions in Ubuntu? - ztirffritz - 04-21-2009
Underneath Ubuntu is Linux. It is similar to UNIX, but definitely different. Many of the same tools are used for both though.