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[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 91 points 2 months ago

Real pros shuffle across the carpet to build a static charge and do their system administration by electrical fault injection.

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 49 points 2 months ago
[-] kamen@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Dammit, emacs.

[-] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 56 points 2 months ago

Still not as bad as chmod -R 777.

[-] Dhs92@programming.dev 29 points 2 months ago

Once had a friend run sudo chmod -R 777 / on a (public) Minecraft server we were running back in highschool. It made me die a bit on the inside.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 24 points 2 months ago

Doesn't it break a lot of things? Half the stuff refuses to work when some specific files have too permissive chmod.

[-] Dhs92@programming.dev 17 points 2 months ago

Really only SSH and sudo broke. sudo would still work but you'd have to re-enter your password every time. It was a painful experience and I'm glad I know better now.

[-] AngryPancake@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

Goodbye ssh access

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 months ago

As a one time noob I may have done this once or more.

To get one thing working I borked everything.

Understanding permissions is pretty basic. But understanding permission requirements for system and user apps and their config and dirs can be a bit overwhelming at first.

Thinking a little change to make your life simpler will break something else doesn't always register immediately.

Shit, even recently, wondering why my SSH keys were being refused and realising that somehow i set my private keys world readable.

Thank god SSH checks file and dir permission.

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Jesus, every time I have to run glx or vaapi under a container I end up having to do this then cringe.

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[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 months ago

Come on! I've stopped logging on as root, can't we just leave it at that?

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[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 37 points 2 months ago

just worked a job where I did not have privlages to sudo commands. except su. had to sudo su so I could run a script.

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

Could you not just use root to give your user sudo? Seems like a pretty dumb restriction

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[-] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 36 points 2 months ago
[-] datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago

then at first day of work:

just use sudo su, we don't have all day here.

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[-] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm in jail because I was not in the sudoer file

[-] nebulaone@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

This incident was, in fact, reported.

[-] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

Well, you were warned 🤷.

[-] bruhduh@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sometimes your package manager asks you for root password every minute while doing few hours long update and cancelling process if you don't enter anything for few minutes, "yay" aur manager looking at you, and you got to do other things than sit and look in the monitor all day long, things like cleaning house or touching grass for example

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

sudo visudo

At the end:

Defaults:USER timestamp_timeout=30

USER is obviously changed to your username.

[-] bruhduh@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago
[-] SavvyBeardedFish@reddthat.com 7 points 2 months ago

If I remember correctly the default sudo timeout is set to 5 minutes on Yay, you should be able to increase it to something more reasonable

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[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Reminds me of all of those vendors that require Windows Admin for no reason.

[-] Landless2029@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Looking at you quickbooks network shares...

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[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 18 points 2 months ago

sudo -s for auditability

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Reminds me of software saying to put your docker socket into the docker container you are starting for convenience.

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[-] mlg@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Our crappy vendor software will only function if IPv6 is disabled network wide. Even if one machine has it enabled, the whole thing breaks

Lol our former crappy vendor solution required to be run directly from AD Administrator. Pure luck the entire business didn't collapse before we replaced it.

A thread I read a long time ago on r/sysadmin

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago

That's at least once a week

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago

Wasn't it 2017 where they had the race condition in sudo su as the command elevates up to root and drops back down?

Every other year, sudo su was not unsafe but merely ghetto. 'sudo su' is the dutch-rudder of 'sudo'.

[-] SuperIce@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago
[-] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

You're going to start a fight with the doas people.

[-] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

And the people that don't use systemd.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 18 points 2 months ago
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[-] ytg@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 months ago

Why does sudo su exist? sudo -i does exactly what you want.

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[-] tabularasa@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

Guilty as charged, officer.

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[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

chmod 777 /directory go brrrrrrrrrrrr

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[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 8 points 2 months ago

Tell me you use Ubuntu without telling me you use Ubuntu.

Wait till you try this on Debian or non Ubuntu variants.

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[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah. After that everything can be done with !sh.

(Edit: This is a joke. There's a lot of reasons not to do this.)

[-] TuEstUnePommeDeTerre@midwest.social 12 points 2 months ago

sudoedit is what you're looking for. Don't elevate the text editor.

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[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

sudo su -c "man man"

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago

Can't programs steal sudo access if the timeout isn't 0?

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