@RedditEnjoyer@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml • 9 months agoA Linux user's nightmare: the machine was wiped clean with one clickwww.mikrobitti.fiexternal-linkmessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1121arrow-down115file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1106arrow-down1external-linkA Linux user's nightmare: the machine was wiped clean with one clickwww.mikrobitti.fi@RedditEnjoyer@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml • 9 months agomessage-square50fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
minus-square@carzian@lemmy.mllinkfedilink44•edit-29 months agoThe command was rm -rf $pathvariable Bug in the code caused the path to be root. Wasn’t explicitly malicious
minus-squareDandroidlinkfedilink19•9 months agoDon’t most distros have safeguards against this? I tried sudo rm -rf / in an Ubuntu VM that I was about to delete just to see what happened, and it gave me a warning. I had to add some other option to bypass the warning.
minus-squareEager EaglelinkfedilinkEnglish14•9 months agoit apparently was defaulting to the home dir, not /
The command was rm -rf $pathvariable
Bug in the code caused the path to be root. Wasn’t explicitly malicious
Don’t most distros have safeguards against this? I tried
sudo rm -rf /in an Ubuntu VM that I was about to delete just to see what happened, and it gave me a warning. I had to add some other option to bypass the warning.it apparently was defaulting to the home dir, not
/Oh, oof.
Hopefully most people take regular snapshots.
Yes,
rm -rf --allow-unsafeOr something is required
--no-preserve-root