Hi, I have a friend I pushed very hard to move to Linux and now made for himself (and also for me) an extremely unpleasant situation:( Before I would attempt to fix really _all_ the file/folder permissions he ruined in '/etc' on his SUSE 9.1, would like to ask your opinion please, what I could do. As I understood, he did somehow a recursive chown and changed ALL of the stuff in the above folder to have the owner root:root :((( I wouldn't like to "lose him" and let him return so easily to the dark side! So at first I let SuSEconfig fix the most important stuff on that comp. At second I have all of the official .html pages from the Novell's site concerning 9.1, where all of their .rpm packages are listed with files/folders AND access rights detailed. I filtered out from them all of the lines having '/etc' in their pathnames and having NO root:root as owner. That was a not so huge list and changed 'back' all of that stuff, causing the system working now without Mb-s of bloody error-logs. Is there please a more precise way to get rid of this access-right problem? Would e.g. changing the system's general security-level to a very high level then back help us/me? I have physical access to that system. Thanks, Pelibali