chmod 777 /

raztos · 2005-08-15 16:22:32

Hi, I wanted to write chmod 777 * , bud a pressed "/" istead of "*". What happened with / directory ?

dtw · 2005-08-15 16:56:27

That is indeed a good question...

colnago · 2005-08-15 17:45:29

since / is a mount point, it should reset if you remount it (reboot). If it really changed / to world rwx, then it could be a security problem, as anybody with access could delete/move dirs/files from / and replace them with their own copies.

Test if there is a problem, as a normal user, cd to / and `echo problem > problem.txt`, if the file is created then remount, otherwise it will complain about permissions.

archdaemon · 2005-08-15 17:51:11

ls -ld /
chmod 755 /

I thought at first you'd done 'chmod -R' - *that* would be a problem.

dtw · 2005-08-15 18:30:57

that's what i thought too

I did that to home once, which was less bad..

jackmetal · 2005-08-16 13:26:30

archdaemon wrote:

I thought at first you'd done 'chmod -R' - *that* would be a problem.

I had an engineer that worked for me do a 'rm -r /' once. ;-)

He was learning by going through my shell history and using the commands to see what they did....

iBertus · 2005-08-16 18:01:44

jackmetal wrote:

archdaemon wrote:
I thought at first you'd done 'chmod -R' - *that* would be a problem.
I had an engineer that worked for me do a 'rm -r /' once. ;-)
He was learning by going through my shell history and using the commands to see what they did....

:twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

Wait, were you logged/su'ed root at the time?

jackmetal · 2005-08-19 08:25:31

iBertus wrote:

Wait, were you logged/su'ed root at the time?

No, but he was!

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#1 2005-08-15 16:22:32

chmod 777 /

#2 2005-08-15 16:56:27

Re: chmod 777 /

#3 2005-08-15 17:45:29

Re: chmod 777 /

#4 2005-08-15 17:51:11

Re: chmod 777 /

#5 2005-08-15 18:30:57

Re: chmod 777 /

#6 2005-08-16 13:26:30

Re: chmod 777 /

#7 2005-08-16 18:01:44

Re: chmod 777 /

#8 2005-08-19 08:25:31

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