Date: 04 Oct 2004 12:15:11 +0200 From: Dmitry Karasik <dmitry@karasik.eu.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /" Message-ID: <84ekke3i34.fsf@plab.ku.dk> In-Reply-To: Giorgos Keramidas's message of "Sat, 2 Oct 2004 11:51:43 %2B0300" References: <20041002081928.GA21439@gothmog.gr> <20041002102918.W22102@fw.reifenberger.com> <20041002085143.GA52519@gothmog.gr>
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Hi Giorgos!
On 02 Oct 04 at 10:51, "Giorgos" (Giorgos Keramidas) wrote:
Giorgos> The reason I liked this idea is that root has zillions of other
Giorgos> ways to destroy an entire system, but not many of them are likely
Giorgos> to be the result of mistyping a single character as shown below:
Giorgos> # rm -fr / home/someuser/*
I just wonder, if 'rm' is so fearful to you, why bother changing rm(1)?
Write a simple wrapper around, as many sysadmins do for their needs,
and use it instead of rm.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
for (@ARGV) {die "$_ is a boo-boo!\n" if m/^\//}
exit system 'rm' , @ARGV;
--
Sincerely,
Dmitry Karasik
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