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I want to try to change /bin/chmod permissions file to rrr but afraid to loose my machine. What happens next if I change them?






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  • The permissions of which files, exactly?

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I want to try to change /bin/chmod permissions file to rrr but afraid to loose my machine. What happens next if I change them?






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I want to try to change /bin/chmod permissions file to rrr but afraid to loose my machine. What happens next if I change them?






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  • The permissions of which files, exactly?

    – Jeff Schaller
    1 hour ago











  • Fixed it in edit. The permission of which chmod itslef

    – Vitali Pom
    1 hour ago



















  • The permissions of which files, exactly?

    – Jeff Schaller
    1 hour ago











  • Fixed it in edit. The permission of which chmod itslef

    – Vitali Pom
    1 hour ago

















The permissions of which files, exactly?

– Jeff Schaller
1 hour ago





The permissions of which files, exactly?

– Jeff Schaller
1 hour ago













Fixed it in edit. The permission of which chmod itslef

– Vitali Pom
1 hour ago





Fixed it in edit. The permission of which chmod itslef

– Vitali Pom
1 hour ago










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Why do you want to do that? I don't see any potentially worthwhile point to that.



You won't lose your machine from doing that, but you'll make it a little harder to change permissions (anybody who'll want to do that will have to find - or make - another program that performs the chmod(2) system call.



I would recommend against doing that, and if you have done so (by accident) I would hurry to find another tool that could undo the change.






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  • oh, so you're saying I'll have to write a little bit more complex program similar to chmod to revert the changes to chmod itself (like something in C that revert the metadata settings to the original file itself (aka chmod).

    – Vitali Pom
    1 hour ago











  • There are many, many possibilities. You could archive your chmod binary, e.g. using pax, tar, or cpio, then change the permission metadata inside the archive using a hex editor, then extract it again. Or, just run ruby -e 'File.chmod(0755, "/bin/chmod"', or the Perl, Python, PHP, or Tcl equivalent.

    – Jörg W Mittag
    5 mins ago



















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If you remove execute permissions from the chmod binary, then all shell scripts (including Makefiles!) that try to execute it will get an error when they try. This includes countless administrative and installation scripts. Your system will fail to work correctly in many unforeseen ways.



Actual programs that call the Unix syscall directly instead of exec’ing another program to do their dirty work for them will be unaffected. But this is little consolation, and your system will still be seriously broken and potentially damaged.



To revert, you would have to write an actual program that can access the real syscall, which means using something like C or Perl, not the shell.






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  • yes it's okay, but this is chmod, will I be able to revert it somehow?

    – Vitali Pom
    1 hour ago











  • @VitaliPom Do you understand the difference between executing a program and calling the kernel syscall?

    – tchrist
    1 hour ago











  • Now I do yes after reading the answers

    – Vitali Pom
    1 hour ago











  • Actually, there are several ways of getting back, from toybox to install. But that's properly another question.

    – JdeBP
    1 hour ago











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Why do you want to do that? I don't see any potentially worthwhile point to that.



You won't lose your machine from doing that, but you'll make it a little harder to change permissions (anybody who'll want to do that will have to find - or make - another program that performs the chmod(2) system call.



I would recommend against doing that, and if you have done so (by accident) I would hurry to find another tool that could undo the change.






share|improve this answer


























  • oh, so you're saying I'll have to write a little bit more complex program similar to chmod to revert the changes to chmod itself (like something in C that revert the metadata settings to the original file itself (aka chmod).

    – Vitali Pom
    1 hour ago











  • There are many, many possibilities. You could archive your chmod binary, e.g. using pax, tar, or cpio, then change the permission metadata inside the archive using a hex editor, then extract it again. Or, just run ruby -e 'File.chmod(0755, "/bin/chmod"', or the Perl, Python, PHP, or Tcl equivalent.

    – Jörg W Mittag
    5 mins ago
















2














Why do you want to do that? I don't see any potentially worthwhile point to that.



You won't lose your machine from doing that, but you'll make it a little harder to change permissions (anybody who'll want to do that will have to find - or make - another program that performs the chmod(2) system call.



I would recommend against doing that, and if you have done so (by accident) I would hurry to find another tool that could undo the change.






share|improve this answer


























  • oh, so you're saying I'll have to write a little bit more complex program similar to chmod to revert the changes to chmod itself (like something in C that revert the metadata settings to the original file itself (aka chmod).

    – Vitali Pom
    1 hour ago











  • There are many, many possibilities. You could archive your chmod binary, e.g. using pax, tar, or cpio, then change the permission metadata inside the archive using a hex editor, then extract it again. Or, just run ruby -e 'File.chmod(0755, "/bin/chmod"', or the Perl, Python, PHP, or Tcl equivalent.

    – Jörg W Mittag
    5 mins ago














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Why do you want to do that? I don't see any potentially worthwhile point to that.



You won't lose your machine from doing that, but you'll make it a little harder to change permissions (anybody who'll want to do that will have to find - or make - another program that performs the chmod(2) system call.



I would recommend against doing that, and if you have done so (by accident) I would hurry to find another tool that could undo the change.






share|improve this answer















Why do you want to do that? I don't see any potentially worthwhile point to that.



You won't lose your machine from doing that, but you'll make it a little harder to change permissions (anybody who'll want to do that will have to find - or make - another program that performs the chmod(2) system call.



I would recommend against doing that, and if you have done so (by accident) I would hurry to find another tool that could undo the change.







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  • oh, so you're saying I'll have to write a little bit more complex program similar to chmod to revert the changes to chmod itself (like something in C that revert the metadata settings to the original file itself (aka chmod).

    – Vitali Pom
    1 hour ago











  • There are many, many possibilities. You could archive your chmod binary, e.g. using pax, tar, or cpio, then change the permission metadata inside the archive using a hex editor, then extract it again. Or, just run ruby -e 'File.chmod(0755, "/bin/chmod"', or the Perl, Python, PHP, or Tcl equivalent.

    – Jörg W Mittag
    5 mins ago



















  • oh, so you're saying I'll have to write a little bit more complex program similar to chmod to revert the changes to chmod itself (like something in C that revert the metadata settings to the original file itself (aka chmod).

    – Vitali Pom
    1 hour ago











  • There are many, many possibilities. You could archive your chmod binary, e.g. using pax, tar, or cpio, then change the permission metadata inside the archive using a hex editor, then extract it again. Or, just run ruby -e 'File.chmod(0755, "/bin/chmod"', or the Perl, Python, PHP, or Tcl equivalent.

    – Jörg W Mittag
    5 mins ago

















oh, so you're saying I'll have to write a little bit more complex program similar to chmod to revert the changes to chmod itself (like something in C that revert the metadata settings to the original file itself (aka chmod).

– Vitali Pom
1 hour ago





oh, so you're saying I'll have to write a little bit more complex program similar to chmod to revert the changes to chmod itself (like something in C that revert the metadata settings to the original file itself (aka chmod).

– Vitali Pom
1 hour ago













There are many, many possibilities. You could archive your chmod binary, e.g. using pax, tar, or cpio, then change the permission metadata inside the archive using a hex editor, then extract it again. Or, just run ruby -e 'File.chmod(0755, "/bin/chmod"', or the Perl, Python, PHP, or Tcl equivalent.

– Jörg W Mittag
5 mins ago





There are many, many possibilities. You could archive your chmod binary, e.g. using pax, tar, or cpio, then change the permission metadata inside the archive using a hex editor, then extract it again. Or, just run ruby -e 'File.chmod(0755, "/bin/chmod"', or the Perl, Python, PHP, or Tcl equivalent.

– Jörg W Mittag
5 mins ago













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If you remove execute permissions from the chmod binary, then all shell scripts (including Makefiles!) that try to execute it will get an error when they try. This includes countless administrative and installation scripts. Your system will fail to work correctly in many unforeseen ways.



Actual programs that call the Unix syscall directly instead of exec’ing another program to do their dirty work for them will be unaffected. But this is little consolation, and your system will still be seriously broken and potentially damaged.



To revert, you would have to write an actual program that can access the real syscall, which means using something like C or Perl, not the shell.






share|improve this answer


























  • yes it's okay, but this is chmod, will I be able to revert it somehow?

    – Vitali Pom
    1 hour ago











  • @VitaliPom Do you understand the difference between executing a program and calling the kernel syscall?

    – tchrist
    1 hour ago











  • Now I do yes after reading the answers

    – Vitali Pom
    1 hour ago











  • Actually, there are several ways of getting back, from toybox to install. But that's properly another question.

    – JdeBP
    1 hour ago
















2














If you remove execute permissions from the chmod binary, then all shell scripts (including Makefiles!) that try to execute it will get an error when they try. This includes countless administrative and installation scripts. Your system will fail to work correctly in many unforeseen ways.



Actual programs that call the Unix syscall directly instead of exec’ing another program to do their dirty work for them will be unaffected. But this is little consolation, and your system will still be seriously broken and potentially damaged.



To revert, you would have to write an actual program that can access the real syscall, which means using something like C or Perl, not the shell.






share|improve this answer


























  • yes it's okay, but this is chmod, will I be able to revert it somehow?

    – Vitali Pom
    1 hour ago











  • @VitaliPom Do you understand the difference between executing a program and calling the kernel syscall?

    – tchrist
    1 hour ago











  • Now I do yes after reading the answers

    – Vitali Pom
    1 hour ago











  • Actually, there are several ways of getting back, from toybox to install. But that's properly another question.

    – JdeBP
    1 hour ago














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If you remove execute permissions from the chmod binary, then all shell scripts (including Makefiles!) that try to execute it will get an error when they try. This includes countless administrative and installation scripts. Your system will fail to work correctly in many unforeseen ways.



Actual programs that call the Unix syscall directly instead of exec’ing another program to do their dirty work for them will be unaffected. But this is little consolation, and your system will still be seriously broken and potentially damaged.



To revert, you would have to write an actual program that can access the real syscall, which means using something like C or Perl, not the shell.






share|improve this answer















If you remove execute permissions from the chmod binary, then all shell scripts (including Makefiles!) that try to execute it will get an error when they try. This includes countless administrative and installation scripts. Your system will fail to work correctly in many unforeseen ways.



Actual programs that call the Unix syscall directly instead of exec’ing another program to do their dirty work for them will be unaffected. But this is little consolation, and your system will still be seriously broken and potentially damaged.



To revert, you would have to write an actual program that can access the real syscall, which means using something like C or Perl, not the shell.







share|improve this answer














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  • yes it's okay, but this is chmod, will I be able to revert it somehow?

    – Vitali Pom
    1 hour ago











  • @VitaliPom Do you understand the difference between executing a program and calling the kernel syscall?

    – tchrist
    1 hour ago











  • Now I do yes after reading the answers

    – Vitali Pom
    1 hour ago











  • Actually, there are several ways of getting back, from toybox to install. But that's properly another question.

    – JdeBP
    1 hour ago



















  • yes it's okay, but this is chmod, will I be able to revert it somehow?

    – Vitali Pom
    1 hour ago











  • @VitaliPom Do you understand the difference between executing a program and calling the kernel syscall?

    – tchrist
    1 hour ago











  • Now I do yes after reading the answers

    – Vitali Pom
    1 hour ago











  • Actually, there are several ways of getting back, from toybox to install. But that's properly another question.

    – JdeBP
    1 hour ago

















yes it's okay, but this is chmod, will I be able to revert it somehow?

– Vitali Pom
1 hour ago





yes it's okay, but this is chmod, will I be able to revert it somehow?

– Vitali Pom
1 hour ago













@VitaliPom Do you understand the difference between executing a program and calling the kernel syscall?

– tchrist
1 hour ago





@VitaliPom Do you understand the difference between executing a program and calling the kernel syscall?

– tchrist
1 hour ago













Now I do yes after reading the answers

– Vitali Pom
1 hour ago





Now I do yes after reading the answers

– Vitali Pom
1 hour ago













Actually, there are several ways of getting back, from toybox to install. But that's properly another question.

– JdeBP
1 hour ago





Actually, there are several ways of getting back, from toybox to install. But that's properly another question.

– JdeBP
1 hour ago










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