26 Sep
2006
26 Sep
'06
17:05
On 9/26/06, James Watkins
Thanks for prodding my brain into gear Carlos. The mistake I had been making was to change the permissions before mounting the filesystem and wondering why they would always revert to 755 after mounting. It also turns out that you can in fact change the permissions and even the ownership for "/". Funnily enough "chmod 777 /" is not a command that I've ever tried before.
Makes me think about rm -rf /. Another command I've never tried (and hopefully never will.) As they say, UNIX/Linux is not designed to protect you from yourself so most commands work, even if you think they are too dangerous to try. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century