[Gllug] A lesson in root
Stig Brautaset
stigbrau at start.no
Sat Feb 9 00:13:55 UTC 2002
At Tuesday, 23 July 2002, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>This reminds me of the time I accidentally hit the return key when
I had
>only typed:
>
>chmod R 777 /
I once witnessed (on irc} some poor sod being tricked into doing
chmod -x -R /
as root two hours after his first-ever successfull linux install.
Unfortunately I didn't react fast enough to stop him doing it.
Nedless to say I was really pissed off; not a way to welcome people
into the community :(
Stig
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