• B-TR3E
    30•7 days ago

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

    • @[email protected]English
      7•7 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 "./”.

      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.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•6 days 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•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?