On Sat, Oct 02, 2004, Michael Reifenberger wrote: > 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.
Do you also want to be able to swap to the root partition while it's mounted? We can bring back that feature, too. But personally, I don't see anything wrong with the view that operations that are guaranteed to shoot people in the foot should be disallowed. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
