ColdWater@lemmy.ca to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 hours agoI never had problems with permission again after I know the real power of sudolemmy.caimagemessage-square101fedilinkarrow-up1563arrow-down114
arrow-up1549arrow-down1imageI never had problems with permission again after I know the real power of sudolemmy.caColdWater@lemmy.ca to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 hours agomessage-square101fedilink
minus-squareB-TR3E@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up25·20 hours agoIt’s safe because it’s sudo! Like sudo rm -rf /*
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-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 hours agoAnyone remember that nvidia fix where a space slipped in like: rm -rf / nvidia ?
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
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