Horror

LMAO! I remember a middle manager calling the sysadmin team asking for a 'high priority restore' of all contents of /etc/passwd but without a lot of detail why.

A little digging found something like:

$ cd /etc
$ pbrun su -
# ls
# cd /etc
# ls -al *clearcase-blah.vob
# rm -rf *clearcase-blah.vob
# ls -al *clearcase-blah.vob
# rm -rf .*.vob
# ls -al *.vob
# rm -rf .*
# ls -al *.vob
# ls -al
# ls -al /etc
# ls -al /
# exit

God how funny! Horrible...cost quite a bit of production time...but we laughed so hard we got warned for 'innapropriate behavior'! You can *FEEL* the panic in that history log. Nothing like giving the clueless root-level access. Hell, I barely trust MYSELF with it.

Good times. :D