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Accidental chown /

Lichon
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Accidental chown /

How screwed am I after I let
chdown -R user:group /
run about 20 seconds while being root ?
This is on a ReadyNAS Pro BE. I got a bunch of errors from "/proc/*".

Frontview is not accepting my admin pass, but I still got shell access (SSH) open.
Can I recover without losing data (aka factory default) ?
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chirpa
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Re: Accidental chown /

Perform an OS Re-install. Check the hardware manual for your system for details: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/20683
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Lichon
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Re: Accidental chown /

Thanks. That fixed most of it. All shares, users, groups, addons and data remained unchanged, except admin password and some files related to SSH. Frontview works again.

I didnt have to reenable SSH, but some dirs remains affected by my "chown" mistake. So far they are:
/home/ftp
/tmp
/var/run/netatalk
/var/run/exim


Luckily I have another ReadyNAS, NV, that I check the user:group rights from.
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