On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:09:49PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > That's fairly useless as a security measure; I would *not* recommend > this. It is not difficult for a script kiddie these days to use tools > that will make this method ineffective for removal (giving you a false > sense of security).
I'm not sure I see how this is possible. Are you talking about a hacked rsync? In my own case I do an NFS floppy boot so the rsync is safe. AFAIK, rsync does a block by block check of each file and leaves the target files with a set of blocks matching those on the source system. Any file names not on the source are removed from the target. I can't see how you could get around it. Some mucking about with inodes? But then that would get cleaned up by a fsck...
