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Accidentally changed ownership of all droplet folders

Posted October 2, 2020 115 views
ApacheUbuntu 18.04

Hello, by mistake I changed the ownership of almost ALL folders of the droplet, including /root therefore I cannot login via ssh as root anymore. It asks me the password but I created root account only with ssh key access. Right now I can only access as the sudo user to which I gave ownership, but I’m not able to switch back with chown.
What can I do to save the situation?

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Yannek October 2, 2020

Hi,

Do you have any snapshot done for that droplet ? You could restore ownership comparing your defective droplet to that one restored from the snapshot. It would demand writing a script to automatize the process.

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bobbyiliev October 2, 2020

Hi there @ilariaroglieri,

I believe that @Yannek has a really good suggestion. One thing that I would personally add is if you have a recent backup is to just restore to that backup, that way you will know that there will not be any unexpected problems down the line.

Regards,
Bobby

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