Dumb mistake chmod -R a+rw

I mistakenly ran chmod -R a+rw web1/ on that web1 folder, meant to unprotect it momentarily to add some files in web1/

How can I undo that command, as everything seems writable now, all directories are highlighted green.

 

This is our web1

drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4.0K Oct 25 00:48 web1

if I ran chmod -R o+rw web1/ would it undo the chmod -R a+rw web1/ ????

 

No it won't. It wouldn't have any effect because "other" already has rw rights. You can use chmod -R o-rw to remove the rw rights for the user "other" (so not part of web1 user or client1 group).
This won't restore the previous setting of the chmod of directories and files inside the web1 folder, but simply remove all rw access for "other". If files or dirs had rwxrwxrwx (777) before you executed your a+rw command, this will also have 774 if you remove the rw.

 

Is it ok to leave it as is? Just throws me off seeing all the folders highlighted green.

 

Not the best idea as every user has full access to all files and dirs in that web now by using e. g. perl scripts or php shell functions etc. in his own web.

 

I'd recommend running
chmod -R o-rw web1
and see if there are any problems in that web afterwards.

 

Ok, so would you suggest this as my best method at this point?
chmod -R o-rw

 

Yes, that's what I suggested.

 

Seems to have worked, everything looks good. Thanks!

 

Now when we connect to our FTP, nothing is shown (no directories or files), just blank. Would anything we did here have anything to do with it???

 

Looking at what till posted above with what the permissions should look like, I see ours do not match that.

Code:

root@dor1:/var/www/clients/client1/web1# ls -lh
total 56K
-rw-r-----  1 web1 client1  487 Oct 25 00:21 amazon_ses.php
drwxrwx--x  2 web1 client1 4.0K Sep  9  2015 cgi-bin
-rw-r-----  1 web1 client1  691 Oct 25 00:21 db.php
-rw-r-----  1 web1 client1  451 Oct 25 00:21 email_send_config.php
drwxrwx---  3 web1 client1 4.0K Sep 17  2016 home
drwxrwxr-x  2 root root    4.0K Oct 25 17:01 log
drwxrwx---  2 web1 client1 4.0K Sep  9  2015 private
-rw-r-----  1 web1 client1 1.3K Oct 25 01:17 @server_define.php
drwxrwx--x  2 root root    4.0K Aug  5 16:59 ssl
drwxrwx--x  3 root root    4.0K Sep 20 10:34 subdomains
drwxrwx---  2 web1 client1 4.0K Oct 25 19:44 tmp
-rw-r-----  1 web1 client1  358 Oct 25 00:21 @version_number.php
drwxrwx--x 28 web1 client1 4.0K Oct 24 23:08 web
drwxrwx---  2 web1 client1 4.0K Sep  9  2015 webdav

 

and here is what web1/ permissions are.

Code:

drwxr-x--x 12 root root 4.0K Oct 25 00:48 web1

 

Do you now have backups so you can restore the files if another mistake happens?
If you have in addition to chmod run chown, use now chown to correct the file and directory owner and group owner.