On Tue, 2022-09-20 at 01:35 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
like the time a nimwit admin of a multi-user
computer (300 users) came home from a security class learning
that "setuid programs were bad". Over the weekend they used
chmod to remove the setuid bit of every program on the system.
Resulted in a few problems Monday morning.
That reminds me of the day I discovered my website completely broken.
The hosting service had removed the X bit off every file, destroying
how Apache makes use of the X bit for knowing it has to parse a HTML
file instead of server it as-is.
They claimed to have done nothing, but it didn't do it by itself. My
guess would be that they changed drives on a system and migrated the
files without applying due thought.
On a website with many thousands of files it was a major pain to
restore, especially as not all HTML files needed the X bit set.
Every now and then they break something new. They swapped Apache for
LightSpeed, and despite its claims as a drop-in replacement, it is not.
There are things it does differently, or cannot do. First I discovered
it messed up mod rewrite, later on the auto-index feature.
These days I have low regard for people with "qualifications," or even
longevity in a job. Neither really mean that they know what they're
doing, or are any good at it. They may do, but those things, alone,
are not proof.
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