Restore the Original Permissions of Package Files using RPM

Himanshu funoracleapps , Linux No comments

Restore the Original Permissions of Files using RPM

If in any case the package configuration files permissions or get changed in Linux, we can use rpm to restore the permissions.

I have changed the permission manully.

[root@lcfs packages]# rpm -qc wget

/etc/wgetrc

[root@lcfs packages]# ls -ltr /etc/wgetrc

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 4479 May 16 2019 /etc/wgetrc

[root@lcfs packages]# chmod 777 /etc/wgetrc

[root@lcfs packages]# chown himanshu:himanshu /etc/wgetrc

[root@lcfs packages]# ls -ltr /etc/wgetrc

-rwxrwxrwx. 1 himanshu himanshu 4479 May 16 2019 /etc/wgetrc

Now lets restore original permissions using setperms:

[root@lcfs packages]# rpm -setperms wget

[root@lcfs packages]# ls -ltr /etc/wgetrc

-rw-r--r--. 1 himanshu himanshu 4479 May 16 2019 /etc/wgetrc

Also we can restore the original ownership as well using setugids:

[root@lcfs packages]# rpm -setugids wget

[root@lcfs packages]# ls -ltr /etc/wgetrc

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 4479 May 16 2019 /etc/wgetrc