Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 19:29:51 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: tillman@seekingfire.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /" Message-ID: <20041002.192951.35870461.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20041002210554.GS35869@seekingfire.com> References: <20041002175517.GA2230@gothmog.gr> <20041002204851.K24332@fw.reifenberger.com> <20041002210554.GS35869@seekingfire.com>
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Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> writes:
: It'll never work, though, that's the thing. At some point it'll rm
: something it itself needs and error out. There isn't a way to use `rm
: -rf /` that /doesn't/ result in foot-shooting.
No. You are wrong. if you rm -rf in a chroot, then it won't result
in foot shooting, necessarily, like it would outside a chroot.
Warner
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