From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 24 19: 4:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from marbles.lost.net.au (marbles.lost.net.au [203.87.95.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C05F37B406 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 19:04:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by marbles.lost.net.au (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g5P24LK82426; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 11:34:21 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from tim@lost.net.au) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 11:34:20 +0930 (CST) From: tim peters To: Ken Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RM question In-Reply-To: <002601c21be7$af4eaf40$654c5142@hewlettsqusv2q> Message-ID: <20020625113258.E80770-100000@marbles.lost.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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