Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 19:27:21 -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: <20041002.192721.110809394.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20041002165155.GP35869@seekingfire.com> References: <200410021123.59811.max@love2party.net> <20041002102430.Y5481@thor.farley.org> <20041002165155.GP35869@seekingfire.com>
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Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> writes:
: On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:42:16AM -0500, Sean Farley wrote:
: > Why not default on? root will not run 'rm -rf /' on purpose very often.
: > Once will be enough. :) Also, when and why would someone want to do
: > this?
:
: Exactly. Who would expect `rm -rf /` to actually succeed? It's not only
: dangerous, it doesn't work in a useful way ;-)
I would. I would expect it to work in a chroot I no longer wanted,
for example.
Warner
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