Dr Colin Jacobs
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Phil Haigh@nixCraft sudo rm -rf /
njsg
Dawnaur@nixCraft Funny, but I really got an user who did it.
It broke the entire VM because several services refused starting with wrong permissions on critical files.
It broke the entire VM because several services refused starting with wrong permissions on critical files.
Georgimus Prime
Simon@nixCraft `chmod +s /usr/bin/*`
LEdoian@nixCraft
sudo usermod -u 0 $USER
Skylar Caulfield 
@nixCraft I remember doing 777 on my iPhone when I was a kid. It was jailbroken.
Brian Moakley@nixCraft When I first installed Linux, I was coming off Windows 95, and I was frustrated that some files needed permissions so I gave everything 777
It was a learning experience, for sure. From the resulting chaos, I decided to actually read a book on using Linux instead of just winging it.
Laced Salmon Enjoyer@nixCraft Can relate. Had to log into root for a very specific task today.
Markus Peuhkurichmod -R +s /usr/bin /usr/sbin
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DarkCyberman@nixCraft I would like to know more about strategies people use setting privileges. At one point I made some kind of rbac model with groups but that was a lot of work and difficult to explain to peers. What is the strategy you use? Just keeping distro defaults?
cmdrSprocket
Duncan Blues@nixCraft you forgot the setuid bit in the last panel 😈
Dellion 🦔@nixCraft One set chmod -R / 777 in my production server.
That was a shitty day
That was a shitty day