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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


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