• @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…