On Tue, 2022-09-20 at 01:35 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > like the time a nimwit admin of a multi-user > computer (300 users) came home from a security class learning > that "setuid programs were bad". Over the weekend they used > chmod to remove the setuid bit of every program on the system. > Resulted in a few problems Monday morning.
That reminds me of the day I discovered my website completely broken. The hosting service had removed the X bit off every file, destroying how Apache makes use of the X bit for knowing it has to parse a HTML file instead of server it as-is. They claimed to have done nothing, but it didn't do it by itself. My guess would be that they changed drives on a system and migrated the files without applying due thought. On a website with many thousands of files it was a major pain to restore, especially as not all HTML files needed the X bit set. Every now and then they break something new. They swapped Apache for LightSpeed, and despite its claims as a drop-in replacement, it is not. There are things it does differently, or cannot do. First I discovered it messed up mod rewrite, later on the auto-index feature. These days I have low regard for people with "qualifications," or even longevity in a job. Neither really mean that they know what they're doing, or are any good at it. They may do, but those things, alone, are not proof. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.76.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Aug 10 16:21:17 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
