How to lock yourself out of SSH with a single scp command

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Ever locked yourself out of your own server just by copying files with scp ? That's exactly what happened to an engineer who wrote about it on sny.sh . Here's what went down. They wanted to transfer a local folder to the home directory on their server: scp -r . host: Looks harmless, right? The problem was that the local folder had permissions set to rwxrwxrwx , or 777 (probably left over from…

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