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[-] Ruscal@sh.itjust.works 57 points 9 months ago

sudo chmod 000 -R / is very fun way of braking your system and is not widely known ๐Ÿ™‚

[-] oriond@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Ruscal@sh.itjust.works 11 points 9 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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