A one-line mistake that locks you out of the obvious fix. The fast recovery teaches more about the permission model than any man page will.
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Someone ran chmod -x on the chmod binary. Nothing can change permissions now. How do you recover?
A one-line mistake that locks you out of the obvious fix. The fast recovery teaches more about the permission model than any man page will.
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