• bitchkat@lemmy.world
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      14 hours 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.

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        14 minutes 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?

      • baines@lemmy.cafe
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        9 hours 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