Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sat Oct 2 18:29:18 PDT 2004


In message: <20041002210554.GS35869 at seekingfire.com>
            Tillman Hodgson <tillman at 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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