/etc/ permissions
Charles Yao
yaocharlesc at gmail.com
Fri Aug 26 08:14:27 UTC 2005
Well there was not any other workaround for my case so I believe what
I did was the best solution. Besides it I only modified a few folders
not the entire FS
On 8/25/05, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Charles Yao wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the reply, i was able to figure it out yesterday. I found a
> > way to log in as root and chaged the permissions on the filesystem.
> >
> That's really a _very_ bad idea. Please post again when you totally screw
> up your system because you've made it so easy to overwrite config files :-(
>
> Doesn't it occur to you that /etc is not writeable by ordinary users for
> very good reasons?
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