ColdWater@lemmy.ca to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoI never had problems with permission again after I know the real power of sudolemmy.caimagemessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squarebitchkat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 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-squarebigbuckalex@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 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-squarerabber@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months 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.
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