On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 08:17 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > They *have* to be root ownership? What is there which will not function > if they are not root ownership? Stuff with the suid bit comes to mind - that bit says to run it as if the owner of the file was running it. Since that owner is no longer root, it will not run as root - and therefore fail. When you mess up that big - unless you have a way to restore all permissions, it really is best to reinstall.
