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[Ken A]

Julian Field wrote:
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> Anthony Cartmell wrote:
>>> Life of a admin Jules ;) at least rm -rf / ;)
>> Yeah, much disk activity until:
>> rm: command not found
> My worst mistake ever went like this:
> 
> for F in long-list-of-hostnames-here
> do
>   ssh $F mv /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.old
>   scp newpasswdfile $F:/etc/passwd
> done
> 
> Now getting out of that took me the rest of the morning :-(
> 

That's nice. Looks like something you might find in a book. It is sooo 
easy to take authentication for granted when you are root.
Ken


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