root shell? Already playing it fast and loose, I see.
The only legitimate commands for a non-root shell are
sudo -i
,exit
, andecho "yee haw"
yee haw
This really isn’t dangerous unless you already screwed up badly. If it wipes, you just restore from backup/DR.
You do have backups and a DR plan for your prod servers, right?
Didn’t some company have a script running that would randomly kill stuff to always test redundancies?
I vaguely recall someone telling me that about netflix
that’s like starting fires on random properties to make sure your firefighters stay on their toes
Fun fact there was a guy a little over a decade ago who got drunk and traded 7m barrels of oil futures. Not dollars, barrels. He made the price of oil jump up for a short while.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/jun/29/drunk-oil-trader-banned-fsa