Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 19:39:32 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: des@des.no Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /" Message-ID: <20041003.193932.78732524.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpmzz3a6dj.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <20041003030946.GV35869@seekingfire.com> <20041003.113739.95785967.imp@bsdimp.com> <xzpmzz3a6dj.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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des@des.no (Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav) writes:
: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> writes:
: > rm doesn't have to live in the chroot. Consider
: > chroot /some/path/to/a/chroot rm -rf /
: > in this case, everything under the /some/path/to/a/chroot would be
: > removed. However, the rm that's running is outside of the chroot.
: =
: Wrong, and I'd be interested to hear how you think chroot(8) would
: pull that off if it were the case.
I was confused.
Warner
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