Almighty root

I was asked to take a look at a machine where aptitude don't even want to do the upgrade to etch. A first inspection shows some weird repositories in the source.list file and many daemons noone ever should use on that machine. I was able to do the upgrade with apt-get then.

After some time I got asked over modifications in /etc/exports. It basically included the following content:[1]

/     *(rw,async,no_root_squash)
/home *(rw,async,no_root_squash,nohide)
/usr  *(rw,async,no_root_squash,nohide)
/var  *(rw,async,no_root_squash,nohide)

The machine was taked out of service immediately. We'll have no chance to answer the question whether this was silliness or intend.