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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish14•edit-27 days agoIt’s my computer, I’ll read and write what I want
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink12•7 days agoYou won’t be able to do certain things. Either .ssh or ~ expects certain exact permissions and pukes if it’s different, IIRC
minus-squareCethinlinkfedilinkEnglish8•7 days agoYep. I fucked up once when I meant to type chmod for something but with “./” but I missed the “.”. It was not good.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•6 days 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•6 days agoAnyone remember that nvidia fix where a space slipped in like: rm -rf / nvidia ?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•6 days 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-squareB-TR3Elinkfedilink1•6 days 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?
sudo chmod -R 777 /utter nonsense of the deranged
It’s my computer, I’ll read and write what I want
You won’t be able to do certain things. Either .ssh or ~ expects certain exact permissions and pukes if it’s different, IIRC
Yep. I fucked up once when I meant to type chmod for something but with “./” but I missed the “.”. It was not good.
It’s safe because it’s sudo! Like sudo rm -rf /*
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.
Anyone remember that nvidia fix where a space slipped in like: rm -rf / nvidia ?
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
I still do. With NFS4 even more than ever. Won’t let it go unless for a SAN.
much?