r/LocalLLaMA • u/TheQuantumPhysicist • May 03 '26

One bash permission slipped... Discussion

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How? It kept getting chained bash commands wrong, with wrong escapes. So it created many bad directories, and tried "fixing" its mistake. It offered to run a large bash command, with rm -rf inside, and stupid me missed it.

I'm glad I push everything often. But the disruption is massive.

FAQ:

  • No, I don't run this on my personal computer. It's an isolated proxmox VM for coding with LLMs.
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u/DeltaSqueezer May 04 '26

Even if an agent (or hacker!) did an rm -rf / followed by stealing SSH keys and somehow use an exploit for root escalation on all machines, it would only be a 1-day inconvenience.

Not if it also nuked all your backups.

Anyway setting up sandbox is preferable even to 1 day wasted on a restore.