[WikiEN-l] Re: new CheckUser proposal up

Thu Oct 13 17:36:38 UTC 2005

"Anthony DiPierro" <wikispam at inbox.org> wrote:
[snip]
>  If sysadmins can do any destructive thing they want, then you haven't
> created a very secure system.

Pick the most secure version of UNIX you can find.

Log in as root.

Invoke the following:
$ rm -r /

How destructive do you actually want?

(I recall hearing a story of how somebody did this and, having interrupted 
the process mid-destroy, managed with the help of some friends to resurrect 
the system because he happened to have a copy of EMACS running (i.e. loaded 
into memory and not susceptible to instant deletion) and was therefore able 
to type in various vital system files by reading the hex off another 
terminal. I wish I could back it up with a URL, but it's the end of my work 
day here, and I'm going home :-)
-- 
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]] 