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So, I’m completely new to Linux and VPS in general but so far I’m quite pleased with the experience, the thing is that I’m not the most avid linux user -duh!- so with that in mind I’m prone to making mistakes…
My problem is that I was following this guide https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-on-ubuntu-14-04 and this one https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-multiple-wordpress-sites-on-a-single-ubuntu-vps and for whatever reason my session timed out and had to reconnect… and I continued with the guide and did not check the directory I was in once I logged back… home… and applied this command at that location “sudo chown www-data:www-data * -R” … so my question is… How bad it is? Do I screwed the VM? Is there a way to undo that command? Back to square one and learn from my mistakes ? :P
I used a secondary user with sudo privileges as per the initial configuration setup guide.
Thanks.
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Assuming you had logged in as root you would have run this command in /root. While there are some places in the filesystem where running this command could have major issues luckily everything under /root is owned by the root user so a single command can put things back how they were.
chown -Rf root /root
Hi,
I ran the command using a secondary account account at the default location (/home/AdminAcc). This user has sudo privileges.
Would this command “chown -Rf AdminAcc /AdminAcc” do the same as the one you posted but for my user?
Thanks.
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