On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:27:14PM -0600, Chuck Hast wrote:
>
> > Well, done it now. I was working on a remote box and forgot that I was
> > on as root, I did a chsh thinking I was on as another login and changed
> > the root shell to ash, but now I can not get back into the machine
> > it appears that in the passwd file the ash shell is not shown as in any
> > particular directory, and a attempt to login as root returns a message
> > 'no shell'
> > and it drops me out.
> Also under the heading of DUMB THINGS I'VE DONE, AND THE CLIENTS I DID
> THEM TO:
>
> I once was logged in to a client's network via PCAnywhere. Tired, and
> thinking I was in a different directory, I issued "DEL *.*" and wiped
> out all their accounting data. Fortunately for them, they kept daily
> backups. Fortunately for me, I was able to convince them it must
> be some sort of weird "computer glitch", and that I had just helped them
> out by spotting it.
Nice save.
A popular one is meaning to type "rm foo*" and actually typing "rm foo *".
The message "foo: File not found" lets you know what you've done. Bonus
points if you're in some important directory.
For extra fun, create a file named "*" on someone else's account.
I used to leave a script in ~ on the school Solaris boxes called "sl"
which listed all the files in the caller's ~ as if it were deleting them
(but didn't acttually do anything). In those machine's
/etc/profile-supplied $PATH, "." was listed (last, but still). Bad admin,
no cookie.
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