Re: Chaos on a Linux box!

"Krish" <chaitask@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Someone in my organisation who is high enough in the management chain
has access to the root password on one of our servers and while writing
some shell scripts, executed the command:

mv ${SOME_DIR}/* BKUP_<some date suffix>/

After that, no one's been able to login to that server through rsh or
telnet. I suspect that he used a wrong variable value (there must've
been no variable like SOME_DIR in his code).

If you have access to the machine, boot from a rescue disc an try to move
things back. Remotely it will be very hard to login.

-- HASM
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