[SOLVED]Changing the owner of /bin file to user

[Lauri44]

Hello everyone:)

I ran the command sudo chown -R <username> /usr/bin , to be able to save files with VScode.
Was that a bad idea?

EDIT:
It wasn’t the /usr/bin folder. It was the /bin folder.

[dalto]

I don’t know what /etc/bin is but if you did that with /usr/bin, then, yes, that was a bad idea.

Many of your commands probably don’t even run anymore. I suspect you can no longer use sudo for example.

Switch to a TTY, login as root and then run sudo chown -R root /usr/bin

[Lauri44]

Thank you for your answer.

I’m so stupid. It wasn’t the /usr/bin or /etc/bin folder. It’s the was the /bin folder.

Is /bin problematic?

[mnrvovrfc]

Is it a problem to have “/home/(user)/bin” instead?

(user) = name of your regular user to log in

I first saw this with Bunsen Labs Beryllium.

[dalto]

@Lauri44

Is /bin problematic?

That is the same as /usr/bin. /bin is linked to /usr/bin

[manuel]

Ordinary user should typically write only to the /home/“your-user-name” folder tree.
Only if you know exactly what you are doing, and you have a valid reason, you can write outside your $HOME folder. Otherwise you probably will create a security risk.

Note that well behaved apps should not typically write to folders other than under your $HOME.
If an app wants to write elsewhere, it should ask for proper permissions, and you must decide if the app should be given those rights.

[Lauri44]

Okay, i changed it back.

Many of your commands probably don’t even run anymore. I suspect you can no longer use sudo for example.

Every command I tried including sudo still worked btw.

Thank u again for your response

[Lauri44]

Good to know!

Thank you too