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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

Excellent summary. Just as a bit of trivia I'll add that Linux file permissions go like r w x (read write execute) = 4 2 1, so taken all together a 7 means the indicated user can do all those operations.

And yeah, it breaks your system in surprising ways. Most people would just have to start over.

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