On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 07:56:56PM +0100, Florian Mickler wrote:
> somehow she has succeeded in moving her complete homefolder (.*-files
> included) into subfolders of her homefolder... i don't know how that
> can happen, but apparently there are no safeguards in place. (Or at
Nor should there be. If you remove write access to your own files or
directories, then you can't write to them. The cure is worse than the
disease. QED.
> Is there a way to shield her from doing smth like that again? What are
Educate her? Tell her not to move Desktop, Documents, or dot-files?
Unset "show hidden files" or its equivalent in whatever file manager
she's using?
Ultimately, you can't *stop* a user from "rm -rf ~" on writable media if
they're so inclined. Even if you did something like a writable unionfs
mount over a read-only user directory (knoppix, anyone?) you'd just be
making changes (both good and bad ones) temporary. This will *not*
result in a usable desktop, unless you're trying to have someone run in
a kiosk mode where no files, bookmarks, or configuration changes are
possible.
And before this turns into a Linux bashing, you can hose your account in
various ways on ANY operating system, including Windows and OS X. Other
than the learning curve, this isn't an OS-specific problem.
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