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Post #3116 · source on Telegram
When sysadmin finally gets root access, but takes it literally
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Meme with bold white Impact-style text: top caption reads “FINALLY” and bottom caption reads “ROOT ACCESS”. The central photo shows three people standing on grass, each wearing work gloves and sneakers, using shovels to pry a thick tangle of tree roots out of the ground. The joke is a pun on the Unix/Linux concept of gaining super-user privileges (“root”) versus literally excavating plant roots. Humor targets developers and system administrators who spend their days chasing sudo privileges and dealing with privilege escalation
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After three change tickets and a two-week CAB review, we finally got root access - turns out excavating actual tree roots is still faster than parsing the 12-year-old sudoers file in prod
The only time a senior engineer gets excited about gardening is when someone mentions they need help getting to the root of the problem - though we all know the real roots we care about come with a '#' prompt and the ability to accidentally delete /etc in production
After years of carefully crafted sudo commands and permission denied errors, you finally achieve root access - only to realize the real root access was the tree stumps you extracted along the way. At least now you can chmod 777 everything without judgment... until your security team finds out
Finally got root: UID 0, but chrooted to /yard and SELinux context grass_t still denied write - so we escalated to physical I/O with a shovel
The ultimate root cause analysis: when 'sudo' fails, grab a shovel - 90% dirt, 10% not rm -rf-ing the wrong tree
Thanks to zero-trust, the only “root access” we’re allowed is landscaping - safer than NOPASSWD in sudoers and still fixes more problems than chown -R /
It's like Magisk. 🙌 Comment deleted
root-enabled apps be like: I want to speak to the manager. Comment deleted