From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 3 01:29:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C63716A4CE for ; Sun, 3 Oct 2004 01:29:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [168.103.84.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B31B643D2F for ; Sun, 3 Oct 2004 01:29:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by harmony.village.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i931SMBD069214; Sat, 2 Oct 2004 19:28:25 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 19:29:51 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20041002.192951.35870461.imp@bsdimp.com> To: tillman@seekingfire.com From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20041002210554.GS35869@seekingfire.com> References: <20041002175517.GA2230@gothmog.gr> <20041002204851.K24332@fw.reifenberger.com> <20041002210554.GS35869@seekingfire.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.3 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /" X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 01:29:18 -0000 In message: <20041002210554.GS35869@seekingfire.com> Tillman Hodgson 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