On 04/15/2010 11:42 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
Since they were non-techies they didn't know the concept of file/directory ownership so "permission denied" was a real shocker. So, they'd log back in a root and try to fix things only to make them worse...or make things insecure. Directories which were previously 755 became 777.
I should have pointed out that when confronted with this new "permission denied" message they would ask their equally non-technical cubical mate who would tell them about the command they learned (chmod) that seemed to fix things...yet not really knowing why. Their advice was "Oh, just do "this"." :-)