Re: Red Hat is moving from / to /usr/

[Sune Vuorela <nospam@vuorela.dk>]

On 2011-12-07, Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> wrote:
> Personally, I think that resorting to rescue media is something of an
> admission of defeat, but I'm probably a bit odd ;-)

I recent followed a recovery in a irc channel after installing a
wrong-architecture libc on a system. Only access was 2 existing root
consoles. 

Recovering involved
 - a base64 decoder written in shell
 - a statically linked busybox
 - overwriting /bin/ln
 - /bin/ln /bin/ln /bin/busybox
 
recovery would have been much faster if a rescue media was available,
but there was several thousands km between the sysadm and the box.

/Sune