• phx@lemmy.ca
    3·
    3 years ago
    • Login as a user.
    • Delete the user while still logged in
    • Run command

    You should get a message “you don’t exist, go away”

    Not sure if that one is still around but I know one person who ran a script with “deluser $USER” and it ate root resulting in fun messages like that

    • marcos@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 years ago

      My local deluser checks if the user has any active process. I tried deleting all of the data by hand, but the process is still assigned to a user name and id.

      I’m not sure if this one can error still can be replicated.

  • dustyData@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 years ago

    People would read the second message, type the yes prompt, break their system. But still claim that it was linux’s fault, and that the OS doesn’t work.

    • Gogo Sempai@programming.dev
      1·
      3 years ago

      They need to noobify that prompt further, something like “Yes, break my system!”. Even Linus wouldn’t fall for that (I hope)!

    • z500@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 years ago

      Honestly I once did this to my desktop environment because I saw a huge list of packages and ignored it because I thought they were packages that could be upgraded, not that it was going to uninstall my fucking desktop lol

  • poweruser@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    1·
    3 years ago

    How could you not include the classic printer lp0 on fire!

    I actually got that one around 2010 on Ubuntu. The printer wasn’t actually on fire. If I recall it was caused by the network attached printer losing connection during a job