2009/6/26 Siddu <[email protected]>: > > > Kartik, > I am assuming ur question is > is it safe to give RWX permissions to all users to all the files ? > answer is Big NO ! especially you need to be very careful not to mess with > the permissions /bin > or /sbin and many of the configuration files present in the etc
Even if only you are using your computer, there is still the danger that you might by mistake edit/delete/destroy/etc some important system files. You might also type in damaging commands, or run some script which might run some damaging commands... So, permissions are there to prevent a. malware / mal-scripts / et cetera b. the user from destroying the system. Think of the necessity to sudo as a "Are you sure?" feature. Think twice before you sudo! :) Anirudh R > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Kartik Nayak <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> Hi, >> Just read the mail by Saifi on 'newbie/n00b is an asset', so am daring to >> ask this question (although it may be a very simple thing for most of >> you). >> In Linux, there are 3 sets of users: myself, my group and others. Others, >> i >> think, stands for all the users of the system. Dont knw abt my group!!! >> Many >> a times i get messages saying 'Permsission Denied' and then i have to >> change >> the permissions to read-write-execute using chmod. For someone like me, >> where there is only one user for linux, i hope its safe to give RWX >> permissions to all users to all the files when needed. >> >> Regards, >> Kartik Nayak >> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> >> >> > > -- > Thanks & Regards, > Siddu > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >
