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by smarinov 2805 days ago
Also, on an unrelated note, I would never ever suggest novice users to blindly just give `chmod +w` to random locations. This is only marginally better than the `chmod 777 <root-folder-name>` that used to be so spread out in many (e.g. PHP-related) tutorials a decade or two ago.
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Agreed, though perhaps it is just a bad example. I could imagine a situation where a single line of advice could be useful outside the realm of filesystem security or disk usage.