Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

"M. Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com> writes:
> rm doesn't have to live in the chroot.  Consider
> 	chroot /some/path/to/a/chroot rm -rf /
> in this case, everything under the /some/path/to/a/chroot would be
> removed.  However, the rm that's running is outside of the chroot.

Wrong, and I'd be interested to hear how you think chroot(8) would
pull that off if it were the case.

DES
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