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Re:Is Sudo Almost Useless? by AndrewKemendo on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @10:59PM (#23473447)
I always looked at sudo as being something between me and chmod 777 and inevitably bricking a distro.
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Re:Is Sudo Almost Useless? by nemosaltat on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @12:26AM (#23473907)
Have done that (from root dir) out of desperation for some permissions issue I couldn’t figure out with -R flag before. 0/10 do not recommend. It’s worse than `rm -R *` because it leaves the hope of recovery.
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