Just use ‘sudo’. Oh wait… Oh. I’m sorry.
@cyborganism is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
E: I’m so unoriginal. Happy holidays everyone.
login root
I sing the alt text of this comic to myself at least four times a year.
Windows has sudo now, lmao
There’s sudo for windows but its actually just administrator
That’s why I log in as root and edit all files to have open permissions. Next I disable all security settings and kernel security mitigations.
After that my system is finally mine.
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You can easily fix it with :
sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /
What does the a+rw part does? I guess the r is for recursively changing the permissions.
Here is the breakdown:
- chmod is the command to change the mode of the files (-rwxrwxrwx)
- -R is the recurse flag,
- a means “all”, you can also have u, g or o (respectively user, group and others) instead.
- + is add (you can remove with -),
- rw is the permissions (rw of rwx)
I prefer changing permissions this way instead of using absolute values (0777 for instance) as it’s easier to reverse if you made a mistake.
Add read/write permissions to all. -R is the recursive part.
I’m picturing all the services complaining their keys are insecure, their configs are insecure
Russia: “Da, comrade, all yours.”
I get this at my job too. “Acess denied, please contact the IT administrator” bitch I AM the IT administrator!
Lemme guess: Windows, hunh?
linux has the same gile ownership system, maybe even less advanced than windows (windows file perms are unnecessarily convoluted)
True, but in Linux is pretty trivial to change the ownership (or just use “sudo” if that’s sufficient. Windows it takes longer to do these things.
chmod in Windows is just as trivial
My only hickup is SElinux, otherwise the permission system on linux is annoying but admin friendly minus stuff like /dev/mem always being denied and libfuse understanding and miscommunicating the risks of the “allow users (with correct permissions) to access another user’s fuse partition” setting. (And its not user privicy, its DOS prevention)
tbf /dev/mem is mapped to physical memory, access to most of which is completely denied by the memory controller in the cpu (while it’s in usermode), no matter rhe access level
In windows you can just update the security settings and do anything you want with it.
It is a feature not a bug, that regular non-tech users can’t just go about deleting their System32.
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That was what gave me the final push to switch from Windows to GNU/Linux
If you install the right tools, even Windows can’t stop you. If all else fails, get a terminal as TrustedInstaller and lay waste to your system.
You don’t need additional tools, all of that is baked into Windows.
It is just a little hidden because they don’t want non-tech users to accidentally delete system files.
Been a while since I touched windows but from what I remember, anything you modify/delete as TrustedInstaller gets reverted back every update.
The Windows Way, changing all preferences back to default after an update.
“Use Edge or else.”
Now I use Linux, or else.
Worst when you plug in an external drive on Linux and the user the files belong to is different so it doesn’t let you access it.
IMO, the rule should be that the user who mounts specifically a removable drive should have complete access to it regardless of existing file permissions, or, meeting in the middle, maybe have a command that requires sudo, which will grant complete access to the drive, something like
sudo takeover-volume /mnt/usbdriveso you don’t have to sudo every single command that needs a file without your name on it. (I’m aware you can also just usesudo chown -R you /mnt/usbdrivebut I think there should be a way to let a user access everything in a drive without changing the actual ownership.)I think most Linux filesystems have a mount option that overrides the user and group of the mounted files.
Just use linux with only a root account, surely nothing bad will happen
Windows gives a permission error if you try to delete or edit a file that’s being executed. It has no complaints about moving it though.
That’d be fine, though? Not an OS expert but if you move it, the computer knows where it goes any can pause and read/writes and utilize RAM for it’s in-use version. But if it tries the same thing when you deleted it, it’s going to have nowhere to put the results of whatever it’s doing. Also if the computer is just reading a file, it may assume you might not want to delete it.
I MADE YOU! I CAN DESTROY YOU!!
Ha! Finally a “Hercules” meme.
