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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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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