What mechanisms are there to revert all permissions of files?
Issue
- Due to an unknown event, permissions on files or directories across a system are now incorrect.
- There's an ongoing problem with permissions on root-owned files being changed incorrectly.
- Permissions changing with no apparent cause
- What ways might they be reset?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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