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What are the default permissions for / and /boot on Arch? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I've messed up by not formatting my partitions on installation and now things are buggy, dbus returns permission denied on starting is one of the prominent bugs at the moment

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I would just start over before you get any more attached to it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Why? I chowned and chmod the mount points only (not recursively) and now the system is functioning correctly

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Use the pacrepairfile utility and you can set them to the distro shipped permissions easily https://man.archlinux.org/man/pacrepairfile.1

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

For now, as far as you know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I can't see a reason for it to fail since the root user was functioning just fine, shit got buggy as soon as other users tried to read from the fs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not sure about what permission changes you did, but my system has various permissions depending on the files or folders, so a general recursive change may give you a functioning system, but with broken security

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

i didn't change permissions recursivly, only for the mountpoints root