• B-TR3E
      34•2 months ago

      It’s safe because it’s sudo! Like sudo rm -rf /*

      • @bitchkat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11•2 months ago

        Back in the olden days we used to nfs mount every other machines file system on every machine. I was root and ran “rm -rf /" instead of "./”.

        After I realized that it was taking too long, i realized my error.

        Now for the fun part. In those days nfs passed root privileges to the remote file system. I took out 2.5 machines before I killed it.

        • @baines@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          2•2 months ago

          I did this in a cleanup script in a make file with an undefined path that turned the pointed dir to root after a hardware change

          thank rngesus I was in a user account with limited privileges

        • B-TR3E
          1•2 months ago

          Back in the olden days we used to nfs mount every other machines file system on every machine. I was root and ran “rm -rf /” instead of “./”.

          I still do. With NFS4 even more than ever. Won’t let it go unless for a SAN.

          Now for the fun part. In those days nfs passed root privileges to the remote file system.

          no_root_squash

          much?

            • B-TR3E
              2•2 months ago

              Holy smokes. That must have been before 1989 (that’s when RFC1094 was released, explicitely prohibiting to map the root user to UID 0). I thought, I was old…

      • TipRingEnglish
        4•2 months ago

        At one of my prior positions they outsourced all the junior engineers to this firm that only had windows desktop support experience.

        Actual escalation I got:

        contractor: I am trying to remove this file that is filling the drive but it won’t let me

        me: show me what you are doing.

        contractor (screenshot): # rm -f /dev/hdc

        another one did rm -rf /var to clear a stuck log file, which at least did solve the problem he was having.

        After that I sent out an email stating that I would not help anyone who used he rm command unless they consulted with a senior first. I was later reprimanded for saying I wouldn’t help people.

        • B-TR3E
          3•2 months ago

          I was later reprimanded for saying I wouldn’t help people.

          I’ve heard that before. “No. I won’t close the circuit breaker while you’re holding the wires.” “Boss!..”

    • @hddsx@lemmy.ca
      11•2 months ago

      You won’t be able to do certain things. Either .ssh or ~ expects certain exact permissions and pukes if it’s different, IIRC