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1st pane: A person whispering to another's ear, captioned "sudo chmod -R 777". 2nd pane: An arm getting goosebumps.
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I did this once by accident (bad scripting, managed to abort it,) it wasn't too bad until sudo told me that the sudoers file had the wrong owner. I then learnt that there are other ways to become root.

OS ran for another ~6months after I re chowned etc to root.

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