@ColdWater@lemmy.ca to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 days agoI never had problems with permission again after I know the real power of sudolemmy.caimagemessage-square111fedilinkarrow-up1654arrow-down114
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minus-square@bigbuckalex@lemmy.ziplinkfedilink18•5 days agoOh… That sounds like a nightmare. How do you even fix that? There’s no “revert the entire filesystem’s permissions to default” button that I’m aware of
minus-square@justme@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilink8•5 days agoIf you are lucky your system is atomic or has other roll back feature. Otherwise it’s reinstall time. I guess you could set up a fresh system, run a script that goes through each folder checking the permission and setting it on the target system.
minus-square@bitchkat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•4 days agoI think they had to reinstall. It was part of a Hadoop cluster and that was extra finicky.
Oh… That sounds like a nightmare. How do you even fix that? There’s no “revert the entire filesystem’s permissions to default” button that I’m aware of
You restore the system from backup
If you are lucky your system is atomic or has other roll back feature. Otherwise it’s reinstall time.
I guess you could set up a fresh system, run a script that goes through each folder checking the permission and setting it on the target system.
I think they had to reinstall. It was part of a Hadoop cluster and that was extra finicky.
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