• bitchkat@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    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.

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      13 days ago

      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

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        13 days ago

        I think they had to reinstall. It was part of a Hadoop cluster and that was extra finicky.