Oh, my...

Mar. 20th, 2007 11:57 am
bjarvis: (Plankton)
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Test your backups! And for god's sake, don't format data hard drives on production servers!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070320/ap_on_hi_te/lost_data_3

My bonehead event.

Date: 2007-03-20 10:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] furrbear.livejournal.com
Deleting the account of a former sysadmin who instead of using 'su', set all of his logins to UID 0. Didn't catch the UID 0 part and let the script delete his files - kernel panic trying to delete /bin/sh. Ooooooops.

Re: My bonehead event.

Date: 2007-03-21 12:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bjarvis.livejournal.com
I'd have made the same error... it wouldn't have occurred to me to check as any admin who sets his default uid to 0 deserves to be flogged (IMHO, of course).

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