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Date:      Sat, 02 Oct 2004 19:29:51 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        tillman@seekingfire.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"
Message-ID:  <20041002.192951.35870461.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20041002210554.GS35869@seekingfire.com>
References:  <20041002175517.GA2230@gothmog.gr> <20041002204851.K24332@fw.reifenberger.com> <20041002210554.GS35869@seekingfire.com>

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In message: <20041002210554.GS35869@seekingfire.com>
            Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> writes:
: It'll never work, though, that's the thing. At some point it'll rm
: something it itself needs and error out. There isn't a way to use `rm
: -rf /` that /doesn't/ result in foot-shooting.

No.  You are wrong.  if you rm -rf in a chroot, then it won't result
in foot shooting, necessarily, like it would outside a chroot.

Warner



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