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29 Dec 2011, 8:34 pm

Hey!
Whats the funnest thing you have done over SSH?
I have used my netbook to do web development in the car (With the host machine at home left powered on with SSH running along with LAMPP) which was so cool, I used mobile broadband to do it.


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05 Jan 2012, 9:08 pm

Madbones wrote:
Hey!
Whats the funnest thing you have done over SSH?
I have used my netbook to do web development in the car (With the host machine at home left powered on with SSH running along with LAMPP) which was so cool, I used mobile broadband to do it.


Rebooted a PC whilst someone was using it. Bow to me, for I am root. :)



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05 Jan 2012, 9:13 pm

null wrote:
Madbones wrote:
Hey!
Whats the funnest thing you have done over SSH?
I have used my netbook to do web development in the car (With the host machine at home left powered on with SSH running along with LAMPP) which was so cool, I used mobile broadband to do it.


Rebooted a PC whilst someone was using it. Bow to me, for I am root. :)


Nice 8)


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06 Jan 2012, 5:37 pm

There was a breakin into a customer's machine one day, and some joker was rifling through the machine remotely. Once I discovered the intruder still had a shell in, I ran this for a bit before I nullrouted his source IP at the border and then shut the box down:

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sudo bash -c 'while /bin/true ; do fortune | wall ; done' &



On another note, the funniest I've seen an experienced unixadmin do was to type this into his bash shell:

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:(){:|:&};:;


And his system hosed.

He couldn't figure out what the hell happened, so after the machine came back up in multi-user after he reset it, he logged in and then typed it in again :)