Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 02:02:26 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Lee Harr <missive@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /" Message-ID: <20041002230226.GC1381@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <p06110421bd84c87e063b@[128.113.24.47]> References: <BAY2-F27PUPeKljq65R00014185@hotmail.com> <20041002175704.GB2230@gothmog.gr> <p06110421bd84c87e063b@[128.113.24.47]>
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On 2004-10-02 17:22, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> wrote: > At 8:57 PM +0300 10/2/04, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >On 2004-10-02 21:23, Lee Harr <missive@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> How about: > >> chflags sunlnk / > >> ? > > > >Setting sunlink on / will only protect the / directory, not its > >descendants, so you don't gain much. > > 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. [...] Hmmm. This sounds much better indeed :-)
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