Re: Chaos on a Linux box!

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 06:15:21 UTC, "Krish" <chaitask@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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:


One has to ask why he was given it! I hope the cost of fixing the
problem comes out of his bonus :-)

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Jim Backus running OS/2 Warp 3 & 4, Debian Linux and Win98SE
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demon <dot> co <dot> uk

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