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.
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