On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 11:19:28 +0300
From: Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"
John Beck, who works for Sun, has posted an entry in his blog yesterday
about "rm -fr /" protection, which I liked a lot:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jbeck/20041001#rm_rf_protection
His idea was remarkably simple, so I went ahead and wrote this patch for
rm(1) of FreeBSD:
This does only help for the obvious case of '/' but not for the
'./' and '../' or '../../' ... accidents.
Furthermore does it prevent root from doing `rm -rf /` which is a pretty
legal operation for root since he knows what he is doing.
This is UNIX, not Windows.
Bye/2
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Michael Reifenberger, Business Development Manager SAP-Basis, Plaut Consulting
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