ColdWater@lemmy.ca to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agoI never had problems with permission again after I know the real power of sudolemmy.caexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10
arrow-up13arrow-down1external-linkI never had problems with permission again after I know the real power of sudolemmy.caColdWater@lemmy.ca to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-squarebitchkat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 days 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-squarebigbuckalex@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·13 days 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-up1·13 days agoI think they had to reinstall. It was part of a Hadoop cluster and that was extra finicky.
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
I think they had to reinstall. It was part of a Hadoop cluster and that was extra finicky.