I am idiot

General system Newbie
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i typed chown -R ftpuser:ftpuser /
now my system is broken any idea how to fix it

reinstall?

PS linux is powerful

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Yes, reinstall…

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Unless you have a full backup to restore…yes…reinstall.

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Can’t he use root to give back the perms to his user?

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You could try yo set al permissions in / to root and then change them in your user folder to $USER that shouldn’t make it worse.

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Were you trying to restrict an ftp user?

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yes

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https://www.baeldung.com/linux/restrict-ftp-user-directory

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Well, it’s not as bad as ‘rm -rf /’ and I’ve done that…but your system is basically screwed if the command completed. You’d pretty much never get it right again because it’s all about permissions.

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