From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 24 18:29:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from host3.visualpresence2000.com (host3.visualpresence2000.com [209.239.53.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C225637B403 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 18:29:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hewlettsqusv2q (66-81-76-101-modem.o1.com [66.81.76.101]) by host3.visualpresence2000.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g5P1T5n25184 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 21:29:05 -0400 Message-ID: <002601c21be7$af4eaf40$654c5142@hewlettsqusv2q> From: "Ken" To: Subject: RM question Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 18:28:54 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0023_01C21BAC.FEAFE3A0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0023_01C21BAC.FEAFE3A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 ------=_NextPart_000_0023_01C21BAC.FEAFE3A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hi all,
 
Without actually trying = it.
I know that as root 'rm -rf / ' would = whack the=20 whole filesystem. Just out of curiosity, what would that do as a normal = user? I=20 kow they couldn't hurt teh root filesystem, but would it recursively = search teh=20 whole system and remove and directory and files that the user has write=20 permissions for ?
That's my guess anyway.
 
 
Ken
 
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