Bug 12444

Summary:	Please package molly-guard - a program to prevent accidental shutdown of the wrong machine
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Richard Neill <mageia>
Component:	New RPM package request	Assignee:	All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://github.com/tmhorne/molly-guard
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Description Richard Neill 2014-01-26 23:50:55 CET

Molly-guard is a very useful little program which intercepts the shutdown command when invoked interactively over ssh. It's useful to prevent absent-mindedly shutting down the wrong server, by typing the shutdown command into the wrong terminal tab (as I have done at least once).

Example (via SSH):

rjn@penguin:~$ sudo shutdown -h now
W: molly-guard: SSH session detected!
Please type in hostname of the machine to shutdown: ^C
Good thing I asked; I won't shutdown penguin ...

This is a debian utility (free software), but has been ported to Red-Hat and exists on GitHub. https://github.com/tmhorne/molly-guard

Thanks.

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Comment 1 Samuel Verschelde 2016-10-11 20:53:38 CEST

Assigning this package request to all packagers collectively. On a voluntary basis, one of them might want to integrate it to the distribution and maintain it for bug and security fixes.

You might also want to join the packager team to maintain this piece of software: see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager

Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs