Back in the dark, old days of Linux I spent 5-6 hours digging through dbus events and X11 configs to get my mouse working. It was unplugged.
In my defense, in those days, Linux was such an insane asylum that diving into dbus and X11 as a first step was usually the logical approach.
Jesus Christ. I’ve never been so thankful for being a Linux noob in my life. That sounds awful.
Those days gave me a career so I can’t really complain.
You can always cd’s nuts
No one mentioned ACLs so far. If you see a + using ls -l like this
drwxrwx---+, you have an access control list entry.More than a decade of using linux and I still can’t remember
setfaclsyntax. I have better luck rememberingtarsyntax.tar -xzfextract ze fileAnd
tar -czfcompress ze file. I saw someone post these mnemonic devices a while back and now I actually remember tar commands. Amazing!
No, you just had a 3 hour learning experience.
Educator here. This is called “discovery learning”. (The alternative to discovery learning, “direct instruction”, would be if someone had told OP about these permissions before OP got themselves into a pickle)
When discovery learning is successful, it leads to better learning outcomes. Compared to direct instruction, you learn the material more deeply and will have better recall of the material, often for the rest of your life. The downsides to discovery learning are that it’s very time-consuming, very frustrating, and many students will just fail (give up) before learning is completed.
Consider yourself one of the lucky ones, OP.
