[Ubuntu] Use Molly-Guard to stop shooting your own leg

Fri, 23 Sep 2016 08:00:06 +0000

If you’re working on some dozens of linux servers (or even more than 100,.. as in my case), you end up doing administration via SSH - which is the way to go. And chances are, that you’ll get dozens of SSH connections open in dozens of tabs and you did some updates on some of those servers and want to restart this thing with a quick sudo reboot now…
I won’t lie if I say, it happend more than once that I accidentally rebooted the wrong server - at least that was the case more than a year ago.
For the last year, since I have been using Molly-Guard - that did not happen once. Why? Because Molly-Guard does stop the reboot command if it detects that you’re issuing it from an SSH console - and asks for the server name. If you’re entering it correctly - it will reboot. If you’re in a frenzy, doing your “sudo reboot now” and enter name serverB while you’re on serverA - yep, Molly-Guard will stop you from shooting yourself in the leg. Neat, ain’t it?

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[Ubuntu] Use Molly-Guard to stop shooting your own leg