I accidentally untarred archive intended to be extracted in root directory, which among others included some files for /etc directory.
I went on to rm -rv ~/etc, but I quickly typed rm -rv /etc instead, and hit enter, while using a root account.

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[–] 30 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Is there any reason to use a root account?

if you just borked your /etc and need to rebuild because you don't have sudo anymore

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    I hand-edited sudoers.conf day one on the job without using visudo

    So in one day, I learnd both how to move a volume from one AWS VM and that there's no good reason not to use visudo.

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