breaking down how Linux file permissions work | Bread on Penguins (www.youtube.com)
from otters_raft@lemmy.ca to linux@lemmy.ml on 23 Aug 17:00
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funkajunk@lemmy.world on 24 Aug 00:05 next collapse

Understanding chmod and chown are foundational knowledge to actually being able to call oneself a “Linux user”. Great video!

ohshit604@sh.itjust.works on 24 Aug 03:01 collapse

Understanding chmod and chown are foundational knowledge to actually being able to call oneself a “Linux user”

I gotcha, sudo chmod -R 777 /*, where we’re going we don’t need permission.

MTK@lemmy.world on 24 Aug 10:19 collapse

Careful! This is very dangerous, you should instead do

sudo chown -R user:user /*

Where “user” is your username, and then do

chmod -R 770 /*

This will make sure that only your user has all the access!

(Don’t do this)

Kazel@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 24 Aug 10:03 next collapse

A video for something basic which can be explained in a few sentences… Won’t watch that shit, future is doomed…

jjjalljs@ttrpg.network on 24 Aug 17:23 next collapse

Many people are illiterate. How many of them are trying to run Linux, I don’t know.

ksigley@lemmy.world on 25 Aug 23:30 collapse

Okay doomer.

mactan@lemmy.ml on 24 Aug 13:59 collapse

the few times Ive seen perms really go awry was from new users running sudo on everything, even wine. definitely took a fair bit of cleanup

N0x0n@lemmy.ml on 24 Aug 16:36 collapse

Can’t exectly remember how or where but I had some chmod 777 -R going on on my setup on the wrong directory and everything seemed fucked up !

Was easier to fresh install instead of hunting some permission issue… Learned from that experience and still learning something new with perms on Linux !