One stupid thing you can do with a UNIX shell and root access
In: Operating Systems
5
Feb
2007
sudo chown -R dick /
instead of
sudo chown -R dick ./
You won’t be able to su – or sudo to chown the ownerships back properly because the sudo executable needs to be owned by root. Some people should never have unfettered sudo rights… like me.
4 Responses to One stupid thing you can do with a UNIX shell and root access
James
February 6th, 2007 at 1am
Ah yes, the joys of unfettered ‘rooting’ :) Never play superuser when you don’t have physical access to the machine. We’ve all done it though (or something similar).
Daniel Wintschel
February 6th, 2007 at 9am
Urgh… Ouch.
Martey
February 6th, 2007 at 2pm
Then what exactly am I supposed to do with my virtual private server?
Bob
June 22nd, 2007 at 8am
Wow you own that server now. lol.
Even if you did change the ownership back. Wouldn’t the permissions be out of sync as well. (I’m not going to test my idea). Even with root access that’s a disaster
The only thing Unix needs is an auto undo command