Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"
soralx at cydem.org
soralx at cydem.org
Sat Oct 2 15:11:19 PDT 2004
> > We could add a new flag "srunlnk", or maybe even "srm-r". The "rm"
> > command will always have to stat() the file it is given (just to
> > see if it is a directory), so it could check to see if this flag
> > is turned on. If it is turned on, then 'rm' could refuse to honor
> > any '-rf' request on that directory.
Why not to just add a flag to 'rm'? For example, `rm -rf /` or
`cd; rm -rf .././` will fail, but `rm -rF /` will succeed.
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