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I was following some advice trying to fix some issues with my webcam and camera permissions. I followed the top comments answers but noticed some comments later speaking of potential security threats.

" THIS IS BAD ADVICE. THIS RECURSIVELY CHANGES ALL PERMISSIONS OF ALL FILES AND DIRECTORIES IN YOUR HOME FOLDER AND POSES A SECURITY THREAT. ALSO IT IS NOT A DIRECT ANSWER TO THE QUESTION... (just to reiterate @qwerty_so, thank you) – jorijnsmit"

"Actually a bad advice. This will change the user permission to 644 for all files in your private folder. Thus is takes back that for protected files as well (like e.g. your ~/.ssh/id_rss which in turn is no longer accepted for ssh logins). Besides that it does not solve the issu. – qwerty_so "

Is there anything I can do to reverse what I've done?

Apps don't show up in camera and microphone privacy settings in MacBook

THIS IS WHAT I DID

xypha
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Rick Lim
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What you need to do depends a bit on the status of your computer. If it is a personal computer for yourself, it should be sufficient to look at https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/272497/what-should-my-home-folder-permissions-look-like .

You might want to re-generate your ssh keys, if there is a chance that someone else has accessed your system.

Be sure to downvote the wrong answer if you can.

Ljm Dullaart
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