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Re: rm -rf / protection
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Philip Rowlands |
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Re: rm -rf / protection |
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Tue, 5 Oct 2004 14:35:05 +0100 (BST) |
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 address@hidden wrote:
>I thought this was interesting...
>http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jbeck/20041001#rm_rf_protection
I'd struggle to find a justification for removing / (perhaps some
chroot'd scenario), but surely this kind of protection mechanism belongs
in the [interactive] shell, a la tcsh's "rmstar" builtin.
Cheers,
Phil