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Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 20:05:43 -0700
To: Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: laugh at the dumb admin
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At 09:59 AM 12/7/2001, Mathew Kanner wrote:
  
>Just when I thought I've shot myself in the foot in every conceivable
>way,  I mounted /usr nosuid instead of /tmp on a machine that's locked
>in an office that won't be opened for a couple of months.  Sure makes
>su'ing root hard.  Well, at least this way I can't accidently kill the
>sshd server.

Ironically, the system is likely to stay up the whole time. At least
if it's BSD.

But you might consider getting one of those remote console cards
for future situations like this.

--Brett Glass


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