Agreed with this: the real question is always to ask how it got to that stage. Like a reasonable answer at all times to this problem is things like: why did yo

Agreed with this: the real question is always to ask how it got to that stage. Like a reasonable answer at all times to this problem is things like: why did you feel like you had to work this way? Why was it even possible to do so? Why was no one else aware this was happening? Why did no one else feel empowered to halt the process if they did know? etc. That sort of personal fuckup is just...never actually a personal fuckup, not when the collateral damage is so large. "I was logged into production as superuser" has the obvious follow up issues of "why was it easier to do that then have a correctly limited account?" (this one happens all the damn time - want a new account? Well here's 10 pages of justifications we need...also no versus "fix production now, just grab superuser from the password DB...) EDIT: And I don't say this as (1) someone who hasn't done this and (2) someone who hasn't ever been using superuser to debug production.