Reply to post: Re: SCO Unix

Hyphens of mass destruction: When a clumsy finger meant the end for hundreds of jobs

Steve Kerr

Re: SCO Unix

Someone (who lost access very quickly after) managed to do a chown -r from /

Took quite a bit of work to go and undo all the damage - compared to an equivalent system.

Unfortunately, it was a customer facing server so couldn't do a full restore from backup.

Fortunately, it wasn't me that had to do it (or was the one that caused it).

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