• oriond@lemmy.mlOP
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      10 months ago

      What does this do? nobody can read any file? would sudo chmod 777 fix it at least to a usable system?

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        10 months ago

        The trick is that you loose access to every file on the system. chmod is also a file. And ls. And sudo. You see where it’s going. System will kinda work after this command, but rebooting (which by a coincidence is a common action for “fixing” things) will reveal that system is dead.

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        10 months ago

        Yep. You could run chmod again to fix it (from a different OS / rescue USB), but that would leave all the permissions in a messy state - having everything set to 777 is incredibly insecure, and will also likely break many apps/scripts that expect more restrictive permissions. So the only way to fix this properly would be to reinstall your OS/restore from backups.