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March 11, 2014 2.1k views
victhorweb
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hello digital ocean, then q did the tutorial swapfile I can no longer log in with my normal User, the permission denied and it was after these commands, such as undo them or allow me loge with a normal User is not root sudo chown root: root / swapfile sudo chmod 0600 / swapfile plz help me
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sleepdreaming March 17, 2014
Did you have any snapshots of your server before running these commands?
The reason I'm asking is that you have some errors in your commands, allow me to explain:

sudo chown root: root / swapfile
^ ^


Notice there's a space between ":" and "root" and also another space between "/" and "swapfile". What this means is that you assigned EVERYTHING under "/" (basically all your filesystem) to the root user with an inexistent group (" root").


sudo chmod 0600 / swapfile
^

Same as before, the space between "/" and "swapfile" is interpreted as a separator, meaning that you are applying the file permissions 0600 (Read-Write only to the group) to EVERYTHING under "/" and a file called "swapfile" that should be in the current directory, and since no group called " root" (with a space) exists, nothing else has permissions to do anything in your server rendering it unusable.
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