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Date:      Sat, 02 Oct 2004 19:26:37 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        sean-freebsd@farley.org
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"
Message-ID:  <20041002.192637.35050666.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20041002102430.Y5481@thor.farley.org>
References:  <20041002081928.GA21439@gothmog.gr> <200410021123.59811.max@love2party.net> <20041002102430.Y5481@thor.farley.org>

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In message: <20041002102430.Y5481@thor.farley.org>
            Sean Farley <sean-freebsd@farley.org> writes:
: 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?

Please consider chroots.  Root many want to do this in a chroot.  I'd
prefer at the very least rm -rff / to work.

Warner



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