gort818/permrs

A utility to save and restore your permissions in case you screw them up.

permRS

Permission Restore

Utlity to save and restore unix permissions

Use permRS to created a backup of file permissions just in case you accidentally run chmod where you are not supposed to.

USAGE:
    permrs [FLAGS] [OPTIONS]

FLAGS:
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -r, --restore    Restore unix permissions
    -s, --save       Save unix permissions
    -V, --version    Prints version information

OPTIONS:
    -p, --path <path>    Set path to save permissions [Default: ~/]

Examples

1. To Save all permissions starting from root

   sudo permrs -sp /

2. To Save all permissions in your home folder

   permrs -sp ~/

3. To save permisions in your working path

   permrs -sp ./

4. To restore your permissions

   permrs -r

5. If you ran permrs -s as root use restore as root.

   sudo permrs -r

Installation

Refer the AUR package.

Notes

permRS will automatically skip any directories or files you do not have access to as a regular user.

Run permRS as root if you want your permissions on all your directorties or files.

Building

Requirements: Rust, Cargo

git clone https://github.com/gort818/permrs

cd permrs

cargo build --release

Binary will be created in /permrs/target/release/