Misconfiguration of Home Directory Permissions

When creating a backup user, I accidentally ran the following commands in the /home directory

sudo chown root:root /home
sudo chmod 755 /home

I ran the commands
At the moment I am not sure if the authorizations are correct, thank you for your help.

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I don’t remember how to authorize correctly

If you only executed those two commands and you didn’t use -R parameter (recursive), then no problem, /home/ dir must be owned by root:root and 755 perms are the right ones.

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