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If I wanted Windows perms I would have installed Windows
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Windows perms are pretty locked down though. Sometimes I can't delete my own files because I need permission from "Administrator" :/
You can actually use Windows-style permissions (ACLs) on Linux via setfacl.
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Obligatory DO NOT RUN THIS ON YOUR COMPUTER (or anyone else's).
You'd think with fully open permissions, everything would work better, but many programs, including important low level things, interpret it as a sign of system damage and will refuse to operate instead.
If you do run it, you'd better have a backup or something like Timeshift to bail you out, and even if you do have that, it's not worth trying it just to see what will happen.
It's not quite as bad as deleting everything because you can boot from external media and back up non-system files after the fact, but the system will almost certainly not work properly and need to be repaired.
You have been warned.
New guy at work ran this to try to fix permissions on his home folder, accidentally ran it on root (both would have been bad)
Several highly paid and experienced Linux admins finally just gave up and deleted the server and built a new one from the backups.
Which, honestly, is the better way to go. Treat your compute resources like cattle, not pets.
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But how else will I make everything work without issues
I will make a disclaimer. Thanks.
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asexuals and demisexuals be like sudo chmod -R 700 /
Doms with cuck and denial fetishes have partners like
sudo chmod -R 077 /
What do the funny words mean? (i understand neither 700 & 077)
sudois telling the computer to do this with root privileges.chmodsets permissions.- Each digit of that three-digit number corresponds to the owner, the group, and other users, respectively. It's 0β7, where 0 means no access and 7 means access to read, write, and execute. So
077is the exact inverse of700, where077means "the owner cannot access their own files, but everyone else can read, write, and execute them". Corresponding700to asexuals is joking that nobody but the owner can even so much as touch the files. /is the root directory, i.e. the very top of the filesystem.- The
-Rflag says to do this recursively downward; in this case, that's starting from/.
So here, we're modifying every single file on the entire system to be readable, writable, and executable by everyone but their owner. And yes, this is supposed to be extremely stupid.
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7 is read, write, and execute permissions. 700 is owner, but not group or others. 077 means the owner has no permissions, but group and others all have full permissions.
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Jesus Christ
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Dear god. Weβre exposed.
all your base are belong to us