Linux reset the permissions of the installed rpm packages with –setperms option

Reset the permissions of the all installed RPM packages

You need to use combination of rpm and a shell for loop command as follows:


for p in $(rpm -qa); do rpm --setperms $p; done
for p in $(rpm -qa); do rpm --setugids $p; done

Above command combination will reset all the permissions to the default permissions under CentOS / RHEL / Fedora Linux.