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MAN THREATENS TO NOT READ NEWS ANYMORE over clickbaity headlines

I was later reprimanded for saying I wouldn’t help people.

I’ve heard that before. “No. I won’t close the circuit breaker while you’re holding the wires.” “Boss!..”

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…

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?

It’s safe because it’s sudo! Like sudo rm -rf /*