Argh! The problem with running a server for students' use when you're an 'amateur' sysadmin is that occasionally things will go wrong ... Today a problem with account permissions and orphaned uid's meant a selection of my students suddenly were denied their home directories, dumped into the root and saw everything! Fortunately they were the good students and didn't go hacking about through the file systems <shudder> but reported it ... 3 h. later and 5 years of ad-hoc mismanagement by 2 separate, amateurs is undone and the permissions are 'sensible' again. It was a nervous time! (But nothing confidential was on the server, just my lecture notes and research data.)
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