A deeper look into a steam-for-linux GitHub issue () investigating how a steam script was able to delete the entire contents of someone’s root directory. While the direct cause of the rm -rf is fairly obvious, how it was triggered in the original bug report is not, and may forever remain a mystery...
Sources:
(buggy copy of posted by “Acies“)
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:26 Steam on Linux
1:40 The Bug
2:58 STEAMROOT
6:04 reset_steam()
8:11 Valve theory
9:21 My “theory“
10:34 Fix
Corrections:
- At 0:56 the descriptions for /bin and /usr/bin are historically correct, but on modern Linux distributions (e.g. beginning in Ubuntu ), /bin is replaced with a symlink to /usr/bin (in a transition called “merged /usr“ or “/usr merge“) so both contain the same contents.
Music:
- We Shop Song by Philip Milman
- Blue Mood by Robert Munzinger
- Aloft by LEMMiNO (
- Firecracker by LEMMiNO (
- Cool Vibes by Kevin MacLeod
- Financial Obligations by Philip Milman
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