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I once brought down our entire production XenServer cluster group by issuing a "shutdown now" in the wrong SSH window. Needless to say it was a bad feeling watc

• gigatexal 10y ago
  Oh crap! Yeah I bet you were pretty panicked. My update statement destroyed data that my team used all the time so I was worried I'd get fired. Luckily that wasn't the case.
• Piskvorrr 10y ago
  root@baz # shutdown now W: molly-guard: SSH session detected! Please type in hostname of the machine to shutdown: foo Good thing I asked; I won't shutdown baz ... Surprising to see such a simple protection neglected.
  • twunde 10y ago
    I don't know how well-known molly-guard is, but I've never heard of it before. Definitely enabling it on my servers next week.
    • Piskvorrr 10y ago
      Interesting. Up until now I've considered it well-known to the point of ubiquity :)