This one has come up before.  I'm pretty sure there isn't I'm afraid.

>
> Hi All
>
> One of my accounts has just had a unix admin tried to run something
> like
>
> chown -R something:something /home/fred/*
>
> but he had an extra space in there and ran it from the root directory
>
> chown -R something:something /home/fred/ *
>
> This has destroyed the ownership of the operating system binaries and
> trashed the system.  Worse it was done using a distributed tool, so
> quite a number of AIX lpars are affected including the TSM server.
>
> Once we get the TSM Server back up, is there any way to restore just
> the file permissions without restoring the data?  I can't think of a
> way.  Maybe there is a testflag to do this?  Even a listing of the file
> and permissions for all active files would be enough to be able to fix
> the problem.
>
> TSM Server 5.5 AIX 5.3