The theme contained rm -rf, but claims it wasn’t malicious intent…I assume rm -rf for cleanup, but seems like it should have a apecific path other than /
When I worked at Pixar long ago an intern had a cron job that was intended to clean up his nightly build and ended up deleting everything on the network share for everyone!
Fortunately there were back-ups and it was fine, but that day was really hilariously annoying while they tracked down things disappearing.
Don’t most distros have safeguards against this? I tried sudo rm -rf / in an Ubuntu VM that I was about to delete just to see what happened, and it gave me a warning. I had to add some other option to bypass the warning.
The theme contained rm -rf, but claims it wasn’t malicious intent…I assume rm -rf for cleanup, but seems like it should have a apecific path other than /
Was it a native theme or a downloaded/custom theme?
Downloaded from the KDE store
Thank you. I couldn’t get google translate to work for me.
When I worked at Pixar long ago an intern had a cron job that was intended to clean up his nightly build and ended up deleting everything on the network share for everyone!
Fortunately there were back-ups and it was fine, but that day was really hilariously annoying while they tracked down things disappearing.
Was that the infamous Toy Story 2 incident?
Amusingly enough, no.
This was after Toy Story 3 released but before Brave.
Oof
The command was rm -rf $pathvariable
Bug in the code caused the path to be root. Wasn’t explicitly malicious
Don’t most distros have safeguards against this? I tried
sudo rm -rf /in an Ubuntu VM that I was about to delete just to see what happened, and it gave me a warning. I had to add some other option to bypass the warning.it apparently was defaulting to the home dir, not
/Yes,
rm -rf --allow-unsafeOr something is required
--no-preserve-root