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    [–] betterdeadthanreddit 91 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

    [–] negativenull 49 points 1 month ago (1 children)
    [–] kamen 17 points 1 month ago

    Dammit, emacs.

    [–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Still not as bad as chmod -R 777.

    [–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month 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.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

    Goodbye ssh access

    [–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month 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 6 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    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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    [–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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    [–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (9 children)

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

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    [–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago
    [–] datelmd5sum 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    then at first day of work:

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

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    [–] veni_vedi_veni 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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

    [–] nebulaone 9 points 1 month ago

    This incident was, in fact, reported.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

    Well, you were warned 🤷.

    [–] bruhduh 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

    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 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    sudo visudo

    At the end:

    Defaults:USER timestamp_timeout=30

    USER is obviously changed to your username.

    [–] bruhduh 4 points 1 month ago
    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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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    [–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

    [–] Landless2029 7 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Looking at you quickbooks network shares...

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    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

    sudo -s for auditability

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month 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'.

    [–] barsquid 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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    [–] mlg 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    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

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

    That's at least once a week

    [–] SuperIce 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

    And the people that don't use systemd.

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Guilty as charged, officer.

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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    chmod 777 /directory go brrrrrrrrrrrr

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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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    [–] Thcdenton 8 points 1 month ago
    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    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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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

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

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

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

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    [–] Ashiette 7 points 1 month ago
    [–] dohpaz42 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

    sudo su -c "man man"

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (11 children)

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

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