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It's all about those little file mode bits
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This is drake erasure and I'm LOVING EVERY MINUTE OF IT, JERRY
Yo dawg, heard you like memes
But those are different
Yeah, not only does +x leave read/write permissions untouched, it also only makes it executable for the user, not for everyone and their cat.
If your cat isn’t the first entry in /etc/sudoers I’m not sure I want to know you
Cat doesn't execute anything tho, it just reads and gives output
The cat command executes the cat program.
What happens when u try to cat the cat program, is that considered reading or executing
Both, they are not mutually exclusive.
Except if you use kitty terminal emulator with unsecure remote access. Issue
Then with cat, you could execute arbitrary commands...
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chmod 666 so only the devil can execute it
not giving a fuck about proper file perms is fine as long as its not a server
When I start fucking with chmod, it happens way too often that what I want to do only works after I executed chmod 777...
May I interest you in a nice “chown”?
chmod -R 777 /
Why the fuck am I still getting permission errors
sudo
Selinux
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this but in reverse 🤷♀️
Nope, +x for life
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If you don't add the leading digit (out of respect) for the sticky/setgid/setuid bits, do you even Linux?
chmod -R 600 ~/, because I dont trust anyone, not even myself.
I forgor the tilde and its taking a long time. wat do
sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root
Start from scratch
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chmod -R 777 / galaxy brain
I don't use chmod nearly often enough to remember these numbers. I know there's a mathematical way to figure it out, but I cba to do that when u+wrx more or less tells me exactly what it does (grant the User Write, Read, and eXecute permissions)
4 read, 2 write, 1 execute.
That's it. Add them up for whatever you want.
and digits are sticky, owner, group, all
700 cause I’m selfish.
700 is the only sane answer for directories inside $HOME.
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chmod -R ug+rwX,o=r *
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Why? I mean not Drake because Drake sucks
My specify every permission every time? That's just going to create arrows.
chmod 755 for when setting permissions to directories. chmod +x for making something executable right when I am about to run it.
real question is how do you pronounce chmod
c h mod
Shmaude
"chemod"
hmod
“change mod”
shmod. and then cho-wn (ch'own? cho-un?)
and of course, hweel (jk on this one)
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