From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 15 12:33:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2402B16A4CE for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:33:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailgw-20.stcloudstate.edu (mailgw-20.stcloudstate.edu [199.17.25.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CFD143D39 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:33:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bepratt@stcloudstate.edu) Received: from exchange7.campus.stcloudstate.edu [199.17.25.221] by mailgw-20.stcloudstate.edu with XWall v3.28 ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:33:30 -0600 Received: from exchange.campus.stcloudstate.edu ([199.17.25.200]) by exchange7.stcloudstate.edu with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:33:26 -0600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6487.1 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:33:26 -0600 Message-ID: <4F752E686C8E04449DCB9FA7C3BD9674718264@EXCHANGE.campus.stcloudstate.edu> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Secure Deletion (Like shred for Linux)?? Thread-Index: AcPDSlsO0v8I9yDGTz2kMtopkLp55gAADxMg From: "Pratt, Benjamin E." To: "Chris Pressey" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Dec 2003 20:33:26.0586 (UTC) FILETIME=[B14919A0:01C3C34A] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Secure Deletion (Like shred for Linux)?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:33:46 -0000 Chris - Thank you very much. I'll just modify "autoclave.sh" to use gshred instead of shred. Thanks again, Ben=20 -----Original Message----- From: Chris Pressey [mailto:cpressey@catseye.mine.nu]=20 Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 2:17 PM To: Pratt, Benjamin E. Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Secure Deletion (Like shred for Linux)?? On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:55:07 -0600 "Pratt, Benjamin E." wrote: > Chris - >=20 > It doesn't look like they do quite what I'd like. Here's the man page > for shred (http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?shred+1). Shred is > used in a shell script called Autoclave > (http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/autoclave/) to securely wipe a > hard drive before getting rid of it. I've attached the "autoclave.sh" > script (as long as attachments are allowed, ask me for it if you don't > get the attachment). >=20 > Ben Ben, My bad! Shred *does* indeed exist on FreeBSD; it's part of /usr/ports/sysutils/fileutils and it's installed as 'gshred' (because all the fileutils are prefixed with a 'g' to avoid collisions with BSD versions of the same tools.) You should be able to install the fileutils port, create a symbolic link from 'shred' to 'gshred', and run the autoclave script. HTH, -Chris