Stuart Longland <[email protected]> wrote: > On 23/7/20 5:22 am, jayasudhaa t.n wrote: > > debian@beaglebone:/etc$ visudo sudoers > > visudo: sudoers: Permission denied > > debian@beaglebone:/etc$ ls -l > > total 940 > > -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2987 Apr 6 10:29 adduser.conf > > drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Jul 16 15:05 alsa > > drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jun 25 17:53 alternatives > > drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Apr 6 10:24 apache2 > > drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Apr 6 10:28 apparmor.d > > Whoever ran `chmod -R 777 /etc` on your BeagleBoard… send them on a Unix > Administration 101 course and ban them from use of your hardware until > they pass the exams. > > Permissions are set a particular way for a reason. This isn't MS-DOS.
However it's doubtful if one wants or needs serious security on a BBB which will probably only ever have one user. OK, the normal/default permissions will prevent you (as a user) doing things that only root (which presumably will be you, on purpose) should be able to do, by mistake, but that's about all. -- Chris Green · -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/lk8oug-91ef.ln1%40esprimo.zbmc.eu.
