I love these kinds of emails…
Using your oldcmp program for the first time. So, it was late, I was hungry and tired, and for some reason I typed ‘oldcmp……..-users -disable..’ with some other switches, and hit ‘enter’. And then I realized it once I hit enter that I was going to disable all users in our current domain with a password age greater than 30, which I ultimately wanted to do, but not at this time cause it wasnt during our ‘change management window’. Then, with my heart beating like crazy, I looked at the report and realized only 10 were changed and the default -safety 10 saved me! Thanks for implementing such a great idea, for us overworked admins who do stupid things like play with this stuff on a prod network when it is late and we are tired.
September 1st, 2007 at 12:18 am
I’m sure you have saved a lot of people with all the safeties you put in there. Can you imagine all the angry mail you would get if the safeties where not in there.
Although you do say use at your own risk.
September 5th, 2007 at 8:00 am
I love the safeties, that is why I put them in. You just never know when you might screw up.
September 6th, 2007 at 10:33 am
I’ve gotten so used to running a command with the safety first, then adjusting the safety limit on the second run to accomplish what I was intending to do. At first it was annoying, but there already have been several times I’ve ganked up a filter clause and would have affected more objects than I intended.
Safety first!