People would read the second message, type the yes prompt, break their system. But still claim that it was linux's fault, and that the OS doesn't work.
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Honestly I once did this to my desktop environment because I saw a huge list of packages and ignored it because I thought they were packages that could be upgraded, not that it was going to uninstall my fucking desktop lol
By "people" you mean Linus Sex Tips
They need to noobify that prompt further, something like "Yes, break my system!". Even Linus wouldn't fall for that (I hope)!
- Login as a user.
- Delete the user while still logged in
- Run command
You should get a message "you don't exist, go away"
Not sure if that one is still around but I know one person who ran a script with "deluser $USER" and it ate root resulting in fun messages like that
My local deluser checks if the user has any active process. I tried deleting all of the data by hand, but the process is still assigned to a user name and id.
I'm not sure if this one can error still can be replicated.
There's also the naughty programmer getting spanked by EFL
