Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 18:28:54 -0700 From: "Ken" <ken@carnahan.ws> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RM question Message-ID: <002601c21be7$af4eaf40$654c5142@hewlettsqusv2q>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi all, Without actually trying it. I know that as root 'rm -rf / ' would whack the whole filesystem. Just out of curiosity, what would that do as a normal user? I kow they couldn't hurt teh root filesystem, but would it recursively search teh whole system and remove and directory and files that the user has write permissions for ? That's my guess anyway. Ken [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2716.2200" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi all,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Without actually trying it.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I know that as root 'rm -rf / ' would whack the whole filesystem. Just out of curiosity, what would that do as a normal user? I kow they couldn't hurt teh root filesystem, but would it recursively search teh whole system and remove and directory and files that the user has write permissions for ?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That's my guess anyway.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ken</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?002601c21be7$af4eaf40$654c5142>