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throwanem on June 15, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: My First 10 Minutes on a Server

Sure! That way it's just a matter of doing

    su -
    curl -sS https://some.random.host/trust-me.sh | bash -

What could go wrong?

drdaeman on June 15, 2016 [–]

Not really. It's more like `./provision.sh your-new-host.example.org`

(Because why in the world would anyone want to type in things by hand? Laziness for any repetetive manual labor is a greatest virtue of any good sysadmin.)

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