Permissions Restores

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Client chowned their server? did you chown a clients server? Never fear, facl is here.

https://kb.ukfast.net/Linux_file_permissions

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We can use the set/get facl command set for restoring server file permissions. TLDR; getfacl can be used to generate a list of file permissions that can then be implemented onto a selection of files using the setfacl command.

The below command would be for creating a permissions.acl file (containing all permissions on a set of files) in /

getfacl -Rp / > permissions.acl

The below command is for using the file created above to set permissions:

setfacl --restore=permissions.acl