ColdWater@lemmy.ca to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoI never had problems with permission again after I know the real power of sudolemmy.caexternal-linkmessage-square55fedilinkarrow-up1413arrow-down112
arrow-up1401arrow-down1external-linkI never had problems with permission again after I know the real power of sudolemmy.caColdWater@lemmy.ca to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square55fedilink
minus-squarebitchkat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·13 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-squareMTK@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·7 hours agoseems reasonable to me, root is just a made up concept and the human owns the machine.
minus-squarebigbuckalex@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up6·10 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-squarebitchkat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoI think they had to reinstall. It was part of a Hadoop cluster and that was extra finicky.
minus-squarerabber@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·9 hours agoYou restore the system from backup
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.
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
I think they had to reinstall. It was part of a Hadoop cluster and that was extra finicky.
You restore the system from backup
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