Well, yes you can see it this way 😅 but this post was completely meant for self protection not for making it easy for attackers... So I hope there are no BOFHs here... 🙊
Yes same here. That was one of the reasons to write this post. However I read that some of these depend on the Linux distribution, but I wouldn't count on that. I was really surprised to see, that chmod and chown both have a --preserve-root and --no-preserve-root flag to prevent misuse, but the default argument is --no-preserve-root! So if you run a command without a "preserve" option, it will default to "no preserve" mode and hence change permissions on a lot of files that shouldn't be changed.
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Well, yes you can see it this way 😅 but this post was completely meant for self protection not for making it easy for attackers... So I hope there are no BOFHs here... 🙊
A few of these scared me most in how easy it would be to make that mistake.
Yes same here. That was one of the reasons to write this post. However I read that some of these depend on the Linux distribution, but I wouldn't count on that. I was really surprised to see, that
chmodandchownboth have a--preserve-rootand--no-preserve-rootflag to prevent misuse, but the default argument is--no-preserve-root! So if you run a command without a "preserve" option, it will default to "no preserve" mode and hence change permissions on a lot of files that shouldn't be changed.