Post #1539675
2025-11-22 08:56 UTC
@nik @daandemeyer @pid_eins sudo chown -R is already a massive footgun. Unlike rm, --no-preserve-root is the default so all it takes is hitting enter too early to nuke your system. Elsewhere you drew the distinction between consciously changing file attributes versus having it done automatically and I agree that's an important distinction, so perhaps instead of --empower a longer name like --preserve-user-attributes would be better. (1/2)
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@jenbanim@mastodo.neoliber.al 2025-11-22 08:59
@nik @daandemeyer @pid_eins but in either case this is an extra flag that you need to append to the command to use this non-standard behavior, so I don't think it's an undue risk and I think it makes sense to describe using it as a conscious choice Personally, having to chown files I created with sudo is a constant frustration so I'm quite excited to get my hands on this (2/2)