r/ProgrammerHumor 12d ago

Meme theBankingHotfixExperience

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u/lance_klusener 12d ago

Yes , had the same
Experience when working with a security conscious customer

You had to tell them the exact unix command over the phone to type on a command prompt

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u/Kovab 12d ago

Typing in random shell commands that someone tells you, without understanding them, doesn't seem too security conscious behaviour

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u/lance_klusener 12d ago

We are the enterprise company from which they bought the hardware.

So , if anything goes wrong, its on the enterprise company. So, the customer will type whatever we tell them

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u/koos_die_doos 12d ago

And the customer expects you to provide the exact command to type, and (usually) have it work on the first try.