@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 months agoI never had problems with permission again after I know the real power of sudolemmy.caimagemessage-square110fedilinkarrow-up1665
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish56•2 months 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink20•2 months 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoI think they had to reinstall. It was part of a Hadoop cluster and that was extra finicky.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink10•2 months 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•2 months 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink11•2 months agoseems reasonable to me, root is just a made up concept and the human owns the machine.
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.
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
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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.
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.