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Britain has no idea how close it came to ATMs flooding the streets with free money thanks to some crap code, 1970s style

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nis table admin -fuckit

Over 20 years back a colleague of mine managed to demote a NIS+ server with a single command meaning there was no master left or something like that.

Neither we on the project nor Sun support could find any way back - so we rebuilt around 20 sun machines from scratch over the next 24 hours...

Our customer rephrased whatever the actual command was to that in the title - seemed appropriate then and I still remember it now!

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