What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux?
I'm working on a some materials for a class wherein I'll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and we're including a section we're calling "foot guns". Basically it's ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers.
I've got the usual forgetting the . in lines like this:
$ rm -rf ./bin
As well as a bunch of other fun stories like that one time I mounted my Linux home folder into my Windows machine, forgot I did that, then deleted a parent folder.
You know, the war stories.
Tell me yours. I wanna share your mistakes so that they can learn from them.
Fun (?) side note: somehow, my entire ${HOME}/projects folder has been deleted like... just now, and I have no idea how it happened. I may have a terrible new story to add if I figure it out.
Deleted the certs from the sshd daemon which locked me out of a remote server that required and a 2 hour drive to fix.
Wonderful. Just like deleting all the
iptablesrules with a default DENY rule in place *chef's kiss*. Required calling the service provider to enable a remote console over HTTPS (it was a manual action for them... supposedly).Anti Commercial-AI license
I'm curious: Is it a bad idea to have
iptableswith a default DENY rule? I use a deafult DENY inufw, and it usesiptablesunder the hood.No, it's only a bad idea if nothing else is allowed.
This is why we use ufw or firewalld. If nothing else setup an undo button