Real pros shuffle across the carpet to build a static charge and do their system administration by electrical fault injection.
this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2024
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Still not as bad as chmod -R 777.
As a one time noob I may have done this once or more.
To get one thing working I borked everything.
Understanding permissions is pretty basic. But understanding permission requirements for system and user apps and their config and dirs can be a bit overwhelming at first.
Thinking a little change to make your life simpler will break something else doesn't always register immediately.
Shit, even recently, wondering why my SSH keys were being refused and realising that somehow i set my private keys world readable.
Thank god SSH checks file and dir permission.
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sudo vi
Yeah. After that everything can be done with !sh.
(Edit: This is a joke. There's a lot of reasons not to do this.)
sudoedit is what you're looking for. Don't elevate the text editor.
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run0 is the new sudo su
You're going to start a fight with the doas people.
sudo -s for auditability