How to reset the permissions of the installed rpm packages on Linux | Linux Today

How to reset the permissions of the installed rpm packages on Linux

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Jun 2, 2017

Sometimes by mistakes, all package file permissions get changed, and you need to restore file permission. For example, a shell script or some sort of corruption could alter the permissions for packages installed files, it may be necessary to reset them.

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