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Re:How To Make a Quick Buck by shabble on Thursday February 21, 2013 @01:25PM (#5259065)
That's where molly-guard[1] comes in; stops (or at least confirms) shutdown on protected hosts. Named after the Big Red Button Cover of hacker-lore[2].

I've heard of people doing things like having a terminal background colour escape sequence in their login scripts as well, so it's immediately obvious if you're on a production host.

[1] http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natty/man8/molly-guard.8...

[2] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/molly-guard.html

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Re:How To Make a Quick Buck by jlgaddis on Thursday February 21, 2013 @05:12PM (#5260848)
My $PS1 always contains the hostname of the machine I'm SSH'd into IN ALL CAPS so that I never do this (again).
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Re:How To Make a Quick Buck by shabble on Thursday February 21, 2013 @06:20PM (#5261315)
Given the well-established treachery of my finger muscle-memory, I'm much more comfortable with a hard interlock than something that relies on me checking the prompt. Definitely better than nothing though.
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