Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 11:34:20 +0930 (CST) From: tim peters <tim@lost.net.au> To: Ken <ken@carnahan.ws> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RM question Message-ID: <20020625113258.E80770-100000@marbles.lost.net.au> In-Reply-To: <002601c21be7$af4eaf40$654c5142@hewlettsqusv2q>
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On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Ken wrote: K> Hi all, K> K> Without actually trying it. I know that as root 'rm -rf / ' K> would whack the whole filesystem. Just out of curiosity, what K> would that do as a normal user? I kow they couldn't hurt teh K> root filesystem, but would it recursively search teh whole K> system and remove and directory and files that the user has K> write permissions for ? That's my guess anyway. yes, it would. so don't do that, unless you really mean it :) -- tim@lost.net.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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