Root login

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Thursday 14 December 2006 3:58 am, Grumpy wrote:

> > Unix I could 'rm -R *' from / if I wanted to, or was careless enough, and
> > it would just happen.
>
> You won't do it but once....call it a learning experience

Heh.  Takes me back to some of my earliest days.

"Hey honey!  Look at this!  I'm not root, so this attempt to obliterate all my 
files will fail!  Watch this!"

rm -rf /
permission denied
permission denied
permission denied
[...]

All fine and dandy until it iterated into /home

Oooooops.

-- 
D. Michael McIntyre