ColdWater@lemmy.ca to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoI never had problems with permission again after I know the real power of sudolemmy.caimagemessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down10
arrow-up114arrow-down1imageI never had problems with permission again after I know the real power of sudolemmy.caColdWater@lemmy.ca to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square39fedilink
minus-squareB-TR3E@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoIt’s safe because it’s sudo! Like sudo rm -rf /*
minus-squarebitchkat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year 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-up2·1 year agoAnyone remember that nvidia fix where a space slipped in like: rm -rf / nvidia ?
sudo chmod -R 777 /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 ?