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    1 day ago

    Back in the olden days we used to nfs mount every other machines file system on every machine. I was root and ran “rm -rf /” instead of “./”.

    I still do. With NFS4 even more than ever. Won’t let it go unless for a SAN.

    Now for the fun part. In those days nfs passed root privileges to the remote file system.

    no_root_squash
    

    much?

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        18 hours ago

        Holy smokes. That must have been before 1989 (that’s when RFC1094 was released, explicitely prohibiting to map the root user to UID 0). I thought, I was old…