• @[email protected]
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    9 months ago

    The command was rm -rf $pathvariable

    Bug in the code caused the path to be root. Wasn’t explicitly malicious

    • Dandroid
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      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.

      • Eager Eagle
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        149 months ago

        it apparently was defaulting to the home dir, not /

        • Dandroid
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          19 months ago

          Oh, oof.

          Hopefully most people take regular snapshots.

        • Rustmilian
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          9 months ago

          --no-preserve-root