On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 04:24:47PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> ahh, *sigh*, i remember the days.
>
> in 1989 i looked in /tmp on our sunos 4.1.3 server at
> imperial, which was running a bit slow, went "eek, that's
> a lot of files in /tmp" and did am rm -fr /tmp.
Why would /tmp allow you to delete files there you didn't own unless you
were root? Why would someone with root blindly delete things they
didn't know what were?
> a few minutes later the sysadmins quite literally stormed in.
And promptly removed root access from the person that wasn't qualified
to have it in the first place? :)
> apparently the printer queue temp files were stored in /tmp and 100
> third year students were all trying to print out their course-work,
> last minute.
>
And why would the printer queue use /tmp in the first place?
> oops.
>
> yes, imperial college third year theory of computing students of
> 1987-1990, it was me.
Did they ever let you have root again?
Len Sorensen
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