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prog ([personal profile] prog) wrote2005-04-18 04:08 pm

I just got BOFH'd?!

For real... in an email cc:ed to all my sidelings and overlings, an HMS sysadmin just chewed me out for writing a database password in a file in my home directory just a few minutes ago. He had every right to complain and tell me about a sysadmin-preferred way of doing things (which would be to parse a locked-down credentials file elsewhere on the fs), but really now.

I group-replied with "LART'd!!!" and then wrote a poem about him and put that in my home directory too, called a_haiku_about_${BOFH_name}.txt
A lovely spring day
Hey, that file's world-readable
Release the hounds, yo

[identity profile] ruthling.livejournal.com 2005-04-18 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
::snork::!

[identity profile] prog.livejournal.com 2005-04-18 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I regret not adding more names to the cc: list in my reply... president@whitehouse.gov et al