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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 32 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The theme contained rm -rf, but claims it wasn't malicious intent...I assume rm -rf for cleanup, but seems like it should have a apecific path other than /

[–] carzian@lemmy.ml 44 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The command was rm -rf $pathvariable

Bug in the code caused the path to be root. Wasn't explicitly malicious

[–] dandroid@sh.itjust.works 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Don't most distros have safeguards against this? I tried sudo rm -rf / in an Ubuntu VM that I was about to delete just to see what happened, and it gave me a warning. I had to add some other option to bypass the warning.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

it apparently was defaulting to the home dir, not /

[–] dandroid@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Oh, oof.

Hopefully most people take regular snapshots.

[–] tfowinder@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes,

rm -rf --allow-unsafe

Or something is required

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

--no-preserve-root

[–] GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)

When I worked at Pixar long ago an intern had a cron job that was intended to clean up his nightly build and ended up deleting everything on the network share for everyone!

Fortunately there were back-ups and it was fine, but that day was really hilariously annoying while they tracked down things disappearing.

[–] YaBoyMax@programming.dev 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Was that the infamous Toy Story 2 incident?

[–] GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Amusingly enough, no.

This was after Toy Story 3 released but before Brave.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago
[–] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Was it a native theme or a downloaded/custom theme?

[–] carzian@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Downloaded from the KDE store

[–] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

Thank you. I couldn’t get google translate to work for me.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

Custom download