These things come about because people learn the simple way to solve all permission problems is just do everything as su (or root) and chmod everything to 777.

These things come about because people learn the simple way to solve all permission problems is just do everything as su (or root) and chmod everything to 777. The problem is it does solve all problems (well sweep them under the rug) - I guess when the only tool you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.