ColdWater@lemmy.ca to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoI never had problems with permission again after I know the real power of sudolemmy.caimagemessage-square107linkfedilinkarrow-up1608arrow-down113
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minus-squarebitchkat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45·20 hours agoHad an idiot “fix” a permission problem by running “sudo chmod -R 777 /” And that is why sudo privileges were removed for the vast majority of people.
minus-squaremlg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 hours agoShared this before, but someone I know did a chmod on /bin which nuked all the SUID/GUID bits which borked the system lol. Surpsingly easy enough to undo by getting a list of the correct perms from a working system, but hilarious nonetheless
minus-squareMTK@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·14 hours agoseems reasonable to me, root is just a made up concept and the human owns the machine.
minus-squarebigbuckalex@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up14·17 hours agoOh… That sounds like a nightmare. How do you even fix that? There’s no “revert the entire filesystem’s permissions to default” button that I’m aware of
minus-squarerabber@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·16 hours agoYou restore the system from backup
minus-squarebitchkat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 hours agoI think they had to reinstall. It was part of a Hadoop cluster and that was extra finicky.
minus-squarejustme@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·17 hours agoIf you are lucky your system is atomic or has other roll back feature. Otherwise it’s reinstall time. I guess you could set up a fresh system, run a script that goes through each folder checking the permission and setting it on the target system.
Had an idiot “fix” a permission problem by running “sudo chmod -R 777 /”
And that is why sudo privileges were removed for the vast majority of people.
Shared this before, but someone I know did a chmod on /bin which nuked all the SUID/GUID bits which borked the system lol.
Surpsingly easy enough to undo by getting a list of the correct perms from a working system, but hilarious nonetheless
seems reasonable to me, root is just a made up concept and the human owns the machine.
Oh… That sounds like a nightmare. How do you even fix that? There’s no “revert the entire filesystem’s permissions to default” button that I’m aware of
You restore the system from backup
I think they had to reinstall. It was part of a Hadoop cluster and that was extra finicky.
If you are lucky your system is atomic or has other roll back feature. Otherwise it’s reinstall time.
I guess you could set up a fresh system, run a script that goes through each folder checking the permission and setting it on the target system.
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