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If the folders and files permission all suddenly goes to 000 on a web sever, can it be brought back? I yes, please let me have the script that can be executed to bring the permission back.

I have a hosting account and I change 1 folder's(cur) permission in the .Mail directory and when I saved, all folders and files in the ("Home" directory and all sub folders) have their permission turned to 000 suddenly and I got confused.

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  • I believe if you search the archives you'll find the answer to this question without having to ask it again.
    – mdpc
    May 23, 2013 at 20:58
  • Might have been better asked in SuperUser or UNIX SE.
    – mdpc
    May 23, 2013 at 20:59
  • Probably unix. Also, @ostana, there isn't such a script - the old permissions are gone, and the only thing you can do automatically is set them all the same, which is probably not what you want, but google chmod.
    – Falcon Momot
    May 23, 2013 at 21:24
  • It's been asked on Unix & Linux (probably multiple times), as well as Server Fault. The basic answer is "You're out of luck. Hope you have a backup."
    – voretaq7
    May 24, 2013 at 2:54

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chmod 600(or whatever you want) -R directory

This will recursively set the permissions on the directory. No need for a script. :)

It is unlikely that permissions can be set to 000 as a consequence of changing permission for one directory.

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  • This does not "fix" or "recover" anything - it simply sets a slightly more sane value than 000. There is no reason to believe that setting everything to 600 is any better than 000...
    – voretaq7
    May 24, 2013 at 2:53

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