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.
Still not as bad as
chmod -R 777
.Jesus, every time I have to run glx or vaapi under a container I end up having to do this then cringe.
from the chmod or from the containers?
Once had a friend run
sudo chmod -R 777 /
on a (public) Minecraft server we were running back in highschool. It made me die a bit on the inside.Goodbye ssh access
Doesn’t it break a lot of things? Half the stuff refuses to work when some specific files have too permissive chmod.
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.