this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2023
127 points (94.4% liked)
Asklemmy
43913 readers
1510 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- [email protected]: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Then figure out the correct perms.
Eh, just hit it with the 777 and pray. Then swear at it some more.
Boot from a usb stick, mount the fs, use the live environment’s chmod command to fix stuff.
I think you'll need to change passwd and shadow, maybe a few other files, but besides that it'll mostly work.
This is the traditional method.
Yeah that's the painful part. A backup would be key here
Worst case you boot up a virtual server with the same OS as your own and just go down the tree learning permissions, and it’s a deep dive learning experience.