25 Apr
2017
25 Apr
'17
6:13 a.m.
There was an incident at Pixar that a runaway rm ate most of the Toy Story 2
movie. The only thing that saved them was an employee had their own copy
on a machine at home.
We never lost the whole disk through one of these, but we did have a guy
wipe out /etc/passwd one day. Our password fields had an rfc-822ish user
name in the gcos field, so it looked
something like:
ron::51:50:Ronald Natalie <ron>:/sys1/ron:
Well, one of our users decided to grep for a user (alas while root) with the
command
grep <howard> /etc/passwd