Re:Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one li...
by TheCams on Thursday April 14, 2016 @11:57AM
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Sorry if that's a stupid question, but does that mean he was running his script as root?
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Re:Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one li...
by smhenderson on Thursday April 14, 2016 @12:22PM
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He was running with full administrative permissions and thus file access permissions on files were ignored.
"root" is the name of the default administrative account on Unix and Unix like systems.