I own you!
take ownership & full access of all resources
threat actor exploits a vulnerable application that is (1) running as you to (2) access resources it doesn’t need: they commandeer your system
how did that happen?🤔
Me trying to uninstall edge
Edge is the best browser for downloading much better browsers lol
Edge is literally the first program I use on a fresh install.
I don’t know what’s the hate with edge, it works wonderfully for an average user, it’s fully configurable with add-ons and handles security policies really well
The AI integration might be a bit over the top but nothing you can’t disable in your side
Really I don’t see why you guys pile on so much on it
I have Windows 10 Pro. I can alter the permissions for anything. If I wanted to, I could delete System32 and fuck the whole thing up.
Can you delete Xbox games installed by another administrator? I ran into that problem a few years ago because I reinstalled W10 and had it keep “personal files” which apparently included my Xbox games. I couldn’t touch them at all, but I had W10 Home. I wonder if my problem could’ve been mitigated more easily than a full wipe of the drive? 🤔
I’m pretty sure I can. It just takes a little more effort actually going into the permissions tab of the files because Windows doesn’t have an equivalent to CHMOD AFAIK.
Though, I am pretty sure you can do those basic permission options without Pro or Enterprise. You just need to be on an administrator account. Other things, like messing with actual system files, requires the Group Policy Editor.
On any Windows system based on the NT kernel (XP+), there’s an additional access level above “Administrator”:
NT Authority\SYSTEM. Some malware can make files hidden or write protected even to Administrator, and afaik there isn’t a legitimate way to obtain that authorityI do see the system level authority in the permissions tab; but IDK if that’s just because I am on pro or not 🤷♂️
When I want to end myself
My Body: Survival_Instincts.exe has activated
You don’t even own your body lol
We are not root of our own minds
Nah removed; root owns me.
My work laptop had a pop-up from an application that basically said “we couldn’t restart last time, so you e got 15 minutes until we reboot your computer” with no way to cancel or prevent the reboot.
Me: the fuck you are
* proceeds to kill the service and process from admin command line*
Get fucked fortinet, I’ll reboot when I’m gods damned ready
Visual representation of the first time I ever saw “owner: nobody”
had a friend that was having problems with his PC and windows kept bitching about he didn’t have permissions. he ripped out the harddrive with it still powered on and threw it off his balcony into the lake screaming, “I fucking own you!”
epic moment in my life to witness such an event.
Did it work after that?
no but he had a second drive and installed xp on it.
vista was at the bottom of the lake.
goes to show how old the story is lol.
In a way, percussive maintenance was successful.
No, but this time the owner knows why it doesn’t work. Big difference in IT.
ROFL
sudo chown…
Wrong root password, this incident will be reported
Is this why people run Arch instead or atomic linux distros?
Lol, I had arch tell me that literally last night while I was updating Nvidia drivers. Just reopened dolphin as admin and deleted what I needed to.
Ah ah ah! You didn’t say the magic word!
sudo edit the file!
…
Ah ah ah! You didn’t say the secret word right after!
Think about this: let’s say you run a program. Do you want that program to be able to take over the computer and read all your files from now on and send the data to a remote third party?
Probably not.
Permissions were created to stop programs from doing that. By running most software without admin permissions you limit the scope of the damage the software can cause. Software you trust even less should be run with even fewer permissions than a normal user account.
The system is imperfect though. A capability-based system is better. It allows the user to control which specific features of the operating system a running program is allowed to access. For example, a program may request access to location services in order to access your GPS coordinates. You can deny this to prevent the program from tracking you without otherwise preventing the software from running.
You forgot the fact that there might be other people using the same computer and they shouldn’t be able to access the others files.
No I didn’t. Most computers on the planet (phones, tablets, laptops) have only 1 user. The whole multi-user system isn’t obviously useful for these computers.
Everyone knows that multiple user accounts need permissions to prevent users from accessing each other’s files. I didn’t bring it up because it was too obvious.
Windows moment
Not necessarily. Linux can have files that are r—r—r— too
It is also possible to make a file “immutable” such that even
sudo rm -fwill failsudo chown -R 1000:1000 /* && sudo chmod -R 777 /*Great way to get your computer pwned.
/*What’s
*doing here? Operate only on the nonhidden top-level files?alias iownyou='sudo chown -R 1000:1000 /* && sudo chmod -R 777 /*'Now I’ve learned enough to know that I can easily learn what all that apparent gibberish does with the “man” command, but you have no idea how unbelievably unapproachable this makes Linux look to the uninitiated.
This isn’t all that different from using CMD on windows. Except that it works better, obviously.
You don’t have to use the cli. But it’s nice to have the option if you want to.
Create one command “iownyou” that does tbe following: Change the owner of every file on the computer to the default user and make every file readable, writeable, an executable by anyone or anything on the computer. It may not be secure, but on the bright side, you’ll never have permission issues again!
Until you realize you just screwed up whatever services you may be running that require specific permissions on specific files. Certificates specifically come to mind for my environment.
I use:
alias thisfolderismine='sudo chown -R $USER' alias thisfileismine='sudo chown $USER'
Me, realizing I can’t delete Edge because the OS assumes it’s installed
Only if you don’t know how to use Windows.
Which I am starting to suspect a ton of Linux users on here are incapable of.
