I've certainly had near close calls like that myself. Reading this is making me consider using zfs (or maybe btrfs) on everything except /boot just for the convenience of easy snapshots. A quick snapshot before potentially destructive actions would be an easy habit to get into. On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825 at gmail.com>wrote: > On 2013.05.18 12:43, Justin Krejci wrote: > > The glory of sudo allows you to granularly deny certain uses of commands > mixed with certain arguments/options. I am sure I read a document > > online a few years back on the subject of safe sudo practices. I had > developed a nice sudoers file for use on an email server system shortly > > after a colleague accidentally ran a similar command at the root level > of the mailbox directory. > This is really the whole point of sudo, and it's nice to see someone using > it properly. Why some people think it's a good idea to use it to > grant a user full root access still escapes me. It seems like a great tool > intended to greatly enhance security is now being used mostly to > degrade it. > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Michael Greenly http://logic-refinery.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130518/2b1848ad/attachment-0001.html>