Well my husband’s work place does audit the code they deploy but they have a big problem with contractors just downloading random shit and putting it on production systems without following proper review and in violation of policy.

The phrase fucking Deloitte is a daily occurrence.

Not every version of chmod supports that and you really don’t want your media files to be executable

Well sudo find ${path} -type d exec chmod 750 {}; to fix the folders first Then sudo find ${path} -type f exec chmod 640 {}; to fix the files

After that sudo chown -Rv my user:media ${path} and everything should be sorted

Unfortunately the XSettings freedesktop spec is trash and hasn’t been released let alone revised since 2001