Get the joke?

baldy3105 · 02-03-2006, 05:19 PM

That'll teach me to pay attention.

KimVette · 02-03-2006, 06:56 PM

Just FYI for novices and newbies: Don't Run That Command, ESPECIALLY not as root. It's only slightly less funny than rm -rf /

Darin · 02-03-2006, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by KimVette

Just FYI for novices and newbies: Don't Run That Command, ESPECIALLY not as root. It's only slightly less funny than rm -rf /

Bah! Most systems won't have an "us" group or any files or folders named base so all it would do is create some disk activity. And to explain the rest of the joke, the command starts in the root directory, scans for all files or folders with the name base in them and changes the group owner to the us group. The *nix equivilent of, "All your base are belong to us."

KimVette · 02-03-2006, 08:19 PM

I get the joke but in the off chance that some app created a group called "us" or if some distribution has one, and you give rights to the entire to that app, and it just happens to have en exploit, then AYBABTU could ring true in a bad way.