Ever came across a case where cmod 777 was a valid solution

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 12:43:40PM -0500, William Muriithi wrote:
> Afternoon,
> 
> Over time, I have came across cases where someone has "fixed" a
> problem or suggested changing file permission to 777 and have always
> ended up ranting about it.  That got me thinking today, could there be
> a solution that would genuinely need read, write and execute
> permission for user, group and others?  I sincerely can not think of
> any and wonder if any of us here have come across such a case.
> 
> Please educate me.

Possibly for something like /dev/null

And as someone else said, if the sticky bit is set as well, then OK.
Otherwise it is always solving the problem in the wrong way.

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