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Date:      Tue, 16 Jan 1996 07:28:49 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Joseph McDonald <joe@smartlink.net>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: deluser 
Message-ID:  <199601161428.HAA01362@rover.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 15 Jan 1996 23:57:12 PST

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: Isn't an "rm -r" dangerous?  What if the user symlinks to "/" ?

No.  That would be stupid.  It just unlinks the symlink.  Hard links
would be a problem if users were on /, but they aren't.  And normal
mortal users can't create hard links to directories.

Warner




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