Like I said, olden days.

I think they had to reinstall. It was part of a Hadoop cluster and that was extra finicky.

I believe sudoedit disables being able to spawn commands from the editor. In vi, I think it was :!<command>

I’ll create directories via sudo in /var/log, /var/lib etc and then chown to the user that the systemd service will be running as.

Back in the olden days we used to nfs mount every other machines file system on every machine. I was root and ran “rm -rf /" instead of "./”.

After I realized that it was taking too long, i realized my error.

Now for the fun part. In those days nfs passed root privileges to the remote file system. I took out 2.5 machines before I killed it.

Had an idiot “fix” a permission problem by running “sudo chmod -R 777 /”

And that is why sudo privileges were removed for the vast majority of people.