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I did chmod -R 666 / when I started playing with Linux in 1999. It did not end well.
Sudo didn’t really exist back then, you ran things as root like real men. /s
asexuals and demisexuals be like
sudo chmod -R 700 /Doms with cuck and denial fetishes have partners like
sudo chmod -R 077 /What do the funny words mean? (i understand neither 700 & 077)
sudois telling the computer to do this with root privileges.chmodsets permissions.- Each digit of that three-digit number corresponds to the owner, the group, and other users, respectively. It’s 0–7, where 0 means no access and 7 means access to read, write, and execute. So
077is the exact inverse of700, where077means “the owner cannot access their own files, but everyone else can read, write, and execute them”. Corresponding700to asexuals is joking that nobody but the owner can even so much as touch the files. /is the root directory, i.e. the very top of the filesystem.- The
-Rflag says to do this recursively downward; in this case, that’s starting from/.
So here, we’re modifying every single file on the entire system to be readable, writable, and executable by everyone but their owner. And yes, this is supposed to be extremely stupid.
This is the best comment I’ve come across in a while. Thank you so much for breaking it down so well.
