Why I don't sudo while drinking

[peturingi]

Saw this.. (http://www.brokenhumor.com/link.php?id=224)

Then I rememberd.. I was drunk when I did sudo rm -rf / on my workstation.. just out of curiosity

[markp1989]

you prob should let people know what that command does encase any one else catches curiosity and does it

(btw it deletes everything on your system)

[Lancro]

Thats one of the greatest vulnerabilities of linux, Its not protected against drunken users.

[matt_symes]

Hmm. sudo rm -rf / is not a good idea. (New users _dont_ try it. It will wipe your installation.)

Great link though, and sooooo true.

[Old_Grey_Wolf]

I would recommend not posting on-line, emailing, or doing anything other than playing games and reading forums/blogs when drinking.
:lolflag:

[I'mGeorge]

Heh alcohol for linux has the same effect as a good detergent, it leaves your hard disk all cleaned up and sparkly white

[Paddy Landau]

And I thought alcohol killed viruses :)

[3Miro]

I busted my Gentoo install once when I had a bit too much to drink. Sudo and su don't mix with alcohol.

[Spice Weasel]

Bloody hell, why were you on the computer when you were drunk? :P

[Random_Dude]

Thats one of the greatest vulnerabilities of linux, Its not protected against drunken users.

Someone should file a bug report.

[radar920]

Thats one of the greatest vulnerabilities of linux, Its not protected against drunken users.

Same with the microwave, have you ever burned the roof of your mouth biting into a hot pocket drunk at 2am.

[endotherm]

I've long held, that the first step to partitioning, is to do a quick field sobriety test.

[chucky chuckaluck]

I think I've done more installations of Arch when drunk than not.

#pacman -Ss bloody_mary

#no package found. walk it off

[3Miro]

Bloody hell, why were you on the computer when you were drunk? :P

What do you mean? Is English not your first language, because you seem to imply that it is possible for a person to not be in front of his/her computer?

[saulgoode]

you prob should let people know what that command does encase any one else catches curiosity and does it

(btw it deletes everything on your system)


saul@tesla:~ $ sudo rm -rf /
rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on `/'
rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe
saul@tesla:~ $

[wojox]

Friends don't let friends sudo while drinking.

[czr114]

I once put the f in fdisk.

Won't do that again.

Backup fully and backup often.

[matt_symes]

saul@tesla:~ $ sudo rm -rf /
rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on `/'
rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe
saul@tesla:~ $

Excellent. When was that added?

[wilee-nilee]

Seek professional help if the drinking is a addiction.

[sisco311]

Excellent. When was that added?

hardy or intrepid (coreutils >=6.10). 174283


Soupy Twist!

[jwbrase]

you prob should let people know what that command does encase any one else catches curiosity and does it

(btw it deletes everything on your system)

I think the thread title and the phrase "I was drunk when" pretty well imply that the actions discussed are not safe.

[zer010]

I would recommend not posting on-line, emailing, or doing anything other than playing games and reading forums/blogs when drinking.
:lolflag:
For those that might still be tempted late at night to PWI (Post While Intoxicated), here's a handy add-on that I haven't tried....:lolflag:
http://www.socialmediasobrietytest.com/

[deanjm1963]

I love sudo while drinking - there's heaps of stuff that I've installed that I would never have thought of installing unless I was in a happy state - and 8 times out of 10 - it's been very good! Cheers all ... now where's my vodka :shock: ?

[ctrlmd]

Saw this.. (http://www.brokenhumor.com/link.php?id=224)

Then I rememberd.. I was drunk when I did sudo rm -rf / on my workstation.. just out of curiosity
i don't see anything empty black screen nothing else ><''

[NightwishFan]

A cold is worse than being drunk. I once deleted all my personal data installing OpenSUSE 10.3 (it doesnt have a forced partition step, if you forget to manually choose it, it just does the default layout). Fixed in 11.0 . I was too busy sneezing to notice I forgot to partition. T_T

[Oxwivi]

No, no, pressing next on a a familiar installer is more dangerous. I had flash disk connected to my computer when I was reinstalling Ubuntu, I didn't notice when it came to the partitioning step that it mentioned my USB not the HDD, I just went ahead and chosen to use the whole space. Wiped the USB clean, it did.

[Khakilang]

One of my friend try to retrieve mail when he was drunk and he was complaining the internet was very slow so upon checking I told him it could be a virus and he immediately went out and see a doctor.

[robsoles]

For those that might still be tempted late at night to PWI (Post While Intoxicated), here's a handy add-on that I haven't tried....:lolflag:
http://www.socialmediasobrietytest.com/

Classic! I should probably install that but I think I'd just kill it at the crucial point it could save me a bit of face so, oh, never mind :p

[Random_Dude]

Friends don't let friends sudo while drinking.

You might get caught by the cyberpolice and charged with a SUI.

[nlsthzn]

This thread is full of win :D

[Hexley]

Hmm.. alcolocks for sudo? (Password for the password) :P

[julio_cortez]

This thread is full of win :D
Yeah, I used to do that when I was drunk, too.. They were the good old days of Windows 3.1 and when DOS booted and I found myself in front of the CLI showing C:\ > I admit that I often typed
C:\ > win

No, seriously, I was too little even to know what alcohol was, at the time Win 3.1 got released. I was just 7 :p

[Famicube64]

Just a reminder, running this command will also wipe any external drives mounted. Yeah, yeah, I did it once.

[matt_symes]

Just a reminder, running this command will also wipe any external drives mounted. Yeah, yeah, I did it once.

Ouch. ;)

[julio_cortez]

Just a reminder, running this command will also wipe any external drives mounted. Yeah, yeah, I did it once.I also did it on purpose to see how much damage it could do to my system (and no, I was not drunk.. I just had to wipe the entire disk and re-partition anyway so I already had backed everything up).

I can confirm the damage is HUGE! Ubuntu install heavily damaged, Windows install completely destroyed, data partition gone.
It's been a massacre :popcorn:

[oldos2er]

Thats one of the greatest vulnerabilities of linux, Its not protected against drunken users.

Linux will never hide your car keys. :)

[98cwitr]

Ive executed that command sober before :?

[chriswyatt]

Posting on forums and social networks while drunk is dangerous enough. :o

I got back from a club once and logged on to a forum, and I must've been close to passing out as I found just complete jibberish posted on this forum the next morning, promptly deleted it when I saw it! I think I'd started typing something that was going to make sense, and then some nonsensical words, followed by random letters and then followed by a string of dots. :\

[endotherm]

I'm reminded of a mini-game from some TV show last year. the game was called "Drunk or Kid", and involved someone telling a tale of stupid actions (like jumping off a roof onto a trampoline), after which the audience placed bets on whether the action occured when the teller was Drunk, or a Kid.

[Christmas]

I would recommend not posting on-line, emailing, or doing anything other than playing games and reading forums/blogs when drinking.
:lolflag:

I second this strongly. And watching YouTube clips and listening to music. :guitar:

[t0p]

There ought to be a law against using computers/the internet while under the influence. You know how some laptops come with a fingerprint reader? Well, they should come with a breathalyzer too, or maybe a needle that pin-pricks your finger then reads the blood/alcohol content.

While we're at it, how about heavily-armed SWAT-type teams monitoring our internet usage, ready with the stun grenades if we criticize our Glorious Leaders? And maybe mind-reading apparati to do away with thought crimes?

[endotherm]

There ought to be a law against using computers/the internet while under the influence. You know how some laptops come with a fingerprint reader? Well, they should come with a breathalyzer too, or maybe a needle that pin-pricks your finger then reads the blood/alcohol content.

While we're at it, how about heavily-armed SWAT-type teams monitoring our internet usage, ready with the stun grenades if we criticize our Glorious Leaders? And maybe mind-reading apparati to do away with thought crimes?
oh I don't know. most of the Internet appears to be designed on the assumption that the client is inebriated. hence the blink tag. popular memes in particular seem to gravitate to poor spelling and grammar. perhaps soon intoxication will be mandatory, as the only people that use the internet sober are the cyber-criminals. everyone else is encouraged to give their credit card numbers to as many people as possible. it helps teh enconomy, ya know.

[giddyup306]

you prob should let people know what that command does encase any one else catches curiosity and does it

(btw it deletes everything on your system)


I tried it in VB with 10.04 out of curiosity.


bob_gates@ubuntu:~$ sudo rm -rf /
[sudo] password for bob_gates:
rm: cannot remove root directory `/'
bob_gates@ubuntu:~$

[robsoles]

I tried it in VB with 10.04 out of curiosity.


bob_gates@ubuntu:~$ sudo rm -rf /
[sudo] password for bob_gates:
rm: cannot remove root directory `/'
bob_gates@ubuntu:~$

If you really need to trash your VM then just replace that forward slash with a star (asterisk, [Shift]+[8] on my keyboard) - I won't post the command proper because we are not to post malicious commands and it is surely a malicious command if you try it with the change I have blabbed: No warnings, just deletion in progress. A safe way to check this out more is to boot from a LiveCD and choose 'Try Ubuntu' and grab it's terminal and knock yourself out but don't mount your actual (nor any you care for the files in) filesystem(s) as their content will wiped if root has write privileges over them for goodness sake!

I reckon the original post of this thread would probably have been jailed if it had contained the line I indicate, I'm thinking twice about submitting this post - it's an unrecoverable operation, you could get me drunk out of my mind and I would still 'do what I had to' to stop you from executing this command on / on an installation anyone cares for, right up until I pass out!

The only errors the command throws when you are at / (ie., cd /[Enter] into terminal) and enter the rm command as implied are things it can't delete even as root - X remained up behind my terminal but I have no point of reference to anything by GUI nor terminal after executing this borker off a LiveCD in a VM.

[I'mGeorge]

'cause if you do



sudo apt-get gimme whisky


you might get a whole bottle of ubuntu whisky and adding that to your drunkenness you could end up in an alcoholic comma

[fatharraxman]

I learned that I should luck my Ubuntu installed-computer before drinking, but am not caring for my Windows installed-device, it may stay bare(Windows?......I hope I'll open it While drunk;) )

[Oxwivi]

I wonder if it's possible to manually crack into Windows while drunk...

[matt_symes]

wonder if it's possible to manually crack into Windows while drunk...

That's possible while asleep :)

[Grenage]

There ought to be a law against using computers/the internet while under the influence. You know how some laptops come with a fingerprint reader? Well, they should come with a breathalyzer too

They do exist, iirc.

Anywho; if one is sitting alone on a computer and getting drunk, lost data is probably the least of their issues. Making some actual friends, or at least drinking socially, would be a better way to go.

[julio_cortez]

And maybe mind-reading apparati to do away with thought crimes?Oh funk. I'm in serious danger then.
With all the times I thought "if only I could kill $name" I would be in prison in no time..

[DZ*]

I tried it in VB with 10.04 out of curiosity.


bob_gates@ubuntu:~$ sudo rm -rf /
[sudo] password for bob_gates:
rm: cannot remove root directory `/'
bob_gates@ubuntu:~$

In Maverick VM (under Fedora host), it printed

"it is dangerous to operate recursively on /
use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe"

When I added that, it trashed the system with some "permission denied" errors, and it didn't completely die until reboot. System monitor continued running, but the time switched to GMT NOTE: this can trash the host and any mounted media too if you forget to unmount them.

[sisco311]

When I added that, it trashed the system with some "permission denied" errors

virtual filesystems



, and it didn't completely die until reboot. System monitor continued running, but the time switched to GMT



RAM




NOTE: this can trash the host and any mounted media too if you forget to unmount them.

+1

be careful when you remove /