• bitchkat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    13 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.

    • B-TR3E@feddit.org
      0·
      12 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?

        • B-TR3E@feddit.org
          2·
          12 days ago

          Holy smokes. That must have been before 1989 (that’s when RFC1094 was released, explicitely prohibiting to map the root user to UID 0). I thought, I was old…