Linux Confession Booth

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Welcome to the Linux Confession Booth. :innocent:

Share one Linux habit, mistake, shortcut, superstition, or “I know this is wrong but I still do it” that you are guilty of.

We listen, we don’t judge, mostly. :melting_face:

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I’ll start! I’m a bit of a command line hoarder, for example on some systems I have aliases I created years ago and no longer remember what half of them do!

Oh, and no judgment here, please, but also I’ll try a reboot before troubleshooting because I guess deep down I’m fine sometimes with not knowing why.

I know, I know. :disappointed_face:

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Mistake:
Last year, I really wanted to rename the Grub entries for Timeshift.

So I looked for the right script and “customized” it - on my production system :clown_face:. I never, ever, ever, ever do that :red_exclamation_mark:

Unfortunately, my changes to the script weren’t very successful. :poop:

In the end, I had to reinstall Arch… :sob:

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Oh! I hope you feel lighter after sharing that. :stuck_out_tongue:

That escalated quickly! lol

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It’s fine. Actually, the reinstallation went pretty quickly. Everything was still there—all the configuration files and so on. When I first started it up, KDE looked almost exactly the same as before.

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My worst wrong Linux habit was to keep credentials for my account synchronised across multiple installations. :shushing_face:
Luckily, potential risk had never materialised. :face_with_peeking_eye:

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“Was”… so nothing to confess eh? We won’t judge. :slightly_smiling_face:

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I am afraid that past sins still matter :innocent:

BTW, do you think that centralised LDAP authentication is as sinful? :wink:

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I’m on call this week (from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m.).
Around 8:20 p.m., I got a call (yeah, extra pay plus extra pay).

A user had deleted all MFA entries in Microsoft Authenticator. No login possible, no production possible (groceries).

A small, careless action has major consequences

Sorry, no Linux content :rofl:

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@toadie @hydn Do you think that new topic titled “Most funny/spectacular/epic/etc IT disaster I’ve ever witnessed” would be popular enough?

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I had many spectacular und EPIC Exchange Server fails :joy:

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Somehow accidentally deleting MFA entries must be one of my biggest fears, haha. Even after I’d have deleted an account, I struggle to delete the corresponding MFA entry.

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Better LDAP issues then LAPD issues… (sic)

W

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@ugnvs Go for it! Don’t worry about popularity. I do have a “jokes-on-me” or two, that I can definitely share. Haha :grimacing:

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