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How to fix broken permissions on /etc, Accidentally ran chmod -R 755 /etc Ubuntu
I would just like to achieve enough functionality to transfer my Postgres database from this droplet to another one since /etc’s permissions are severely broken and I’ve been recommended by everyone to try and recover as much as possible and just rebuild the droplet
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Hello,
In addition to what has been mentioned, if this is still not working, it would be best to revert to a working backup as described here:
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/images/backups/how-to/create-and-restore/
Best,
Bobby
hi @kodakay,
Well, it won’t be universal for all files and folders but you can try to chmod the permissions of each file to 644 and each folder to 755. You can achieve this by running:
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