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minus-squarebitchkat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·10 hours agoBack 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.
minus-squarebaines@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 hours agoI 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
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 hours agoAnyone remember that nvidia fix where a space slipped in like: rm -rf / nvidia ?
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.
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
Anyone remember that nvidia fix where a space slipped in like: rm -rf / nvidia ?