Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 11:49:33 -0800 From: Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> To: "Pratt, Benjamin E." <bepratt@stcloudstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Secure Deletion (Like shred for Linux)?? Message-ID: <20031215114933.102acb38.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <4F752E686C8E04449DCB9FA7C3BD9674718261@EXCHANGE.campus.stcloudstate.edu> References: <4F752E686C8E04449DCB9FA7C3BD9674718261@EXCHANGE.campus.stcloudstate.edu>
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On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:31:52 -0600 "Pratt, Benjamin E." <bepratt@stcloudstate.edu> wrote: > Hello - > > I'm fairly new to FreeBSD and was wondering if there are any other > programs out there for secure deletion. I know that you can use the > -P flag with rm to overwrite files but you can't specify the > iterations of overwriting. > > What I'm looking for is something similar to (or exactly like) shred > for Linux. Is it out there?? > > Thanks, > > Ben Hi, The only programs I've seen like what you describe are 'obliterate' and 'srm'. /usr/ports/sysutils/obliterate /usr/ports/security/srm I'm not sure either of them does exactly what you want (specifying how many times to overwrite the file,) but they may be worth checking out. -Chris
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