Disclaimer: Do not run this command.
Obligatory DO NOT RUN THIS ON YOUR COMPUTER (or anyone else’s).
You’d think with fully open permissions, everything would work better, but many programs, including important low level things, interpret it as a sign of system damage and will refuse to operate instead.
If you do run it, you’d better have a backup or something like Timeshift to bail you out, and even if you do have that, it’s not worth trying it just to see what will happen.
It’s not quite as bad as deleting everything because you can boot from external media and back up non-system files after the fact, but the system will almost certainly not work properly and need to be repaired.
You have been warned.
I will make a disclaimer. Thanks.
New guy at work ran this to try to fix permissions on his home folder, accidentally ran it on root (both would have been bad)
Several highly paid and experienced Linux admins finally just gave up and deleted the server and built a new one from the backups.
What exactly does that command do
It sets permissions (
changemodification rights) on all files (-R= recursive, stepping down through directories) in the file system (hence starting at/) so that they can be read, (re)written and executed as programs by all users (the777part).000would be no permissions for anyone (except for therootuser), which would be just as bad.
Taking the term open sourced to a whole new level!
Everybody has permissions!
It’s still not really open-source until you open up all the ports now don’t you think?
