Re: How does IRC know I'm <root>?

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From: Michael Strates
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 00:00

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On 15 Dec 1997, Mr Stuart Lamble wrote:

> Helpful hint: what happens if somebody sends you some program which you fire
> up? What happens if that program does the equivalent of "rm -rf /"?

Something like that happened to me just today. I was installing Dosemu,
and ran an install script, and it mucked up the permissions on / .. All
the accounts except root wouldn't login, and it took me a good 30 minutes
to figure out what was going on and another 10 to fix it.

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