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Date:      Tue, 16 Jan 1996 07:53:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie)
To:        joe@smartlink.net (Joseph McDonald)
Cc:        gestur@islandia.is, jwb@xioa.cosmic.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: deluser
Message-ID:  <m0tcDgz-000AoHC@agora.rdrop.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960115235537.9374D-100000@warp10.smartlink.net> from "Joseph McDonald" at Jan 15, 96 11:57:12 pm

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

No, rm -r does not follow symlinks; it just removes them.

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