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you will return the "system" to a sane and reliably secure state.

However, that said you can do it. I have restored systems from tape,
or taken the tape dump, extracted the permissions from every file
and restored them that way.

Alternatively if you have a similar system with the same base OS
on it you can compare the file system that way... or script it.

But I would recommend pulling the data off the home file system and
reinstalling the OS a fresh.

cheers,

Kim
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Operating Systems, Services and Operations
Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide
kim.hawtin at adelaide.edu.au

"I am not a finite state machine"