Can’t remember exactly what happened but it involved changing permissions on /bin
/sbin
and similar. You know for security …
In the end I didn’t have permissions to run chmod
, su
or sudo
Fortunately there is little that can’t be fixed by booting from a live image.
There is a famous experiment , where a person gets 100$, and have to offer an arbitrary percentage of that to a stranger. If the stranger declines, both get nothing.
From the strangers perspective, getting offered even 1$ is a win, but the vast majority rejected anything below 30%