82 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-hackersProtection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Giorgos Keramidas | Oct 2, 2004 1:19 am | |
| Edwin Groothuis | Oct 2, 2004 1:33 am | |
| Michael Reifenberger | Oct 2, 2004 1:34 am | |
| Giorgos Keramidas | Oct 2, 2004 1:39 am | |
| Giorgos Keramidas | Oct 2, 2004 1:51 am | |
| Ryan Sommers | Oct 2, 2004 1:52 am | |
| Giorgos Keramidas | Oct 2, 2004 1:53 am | |
| Giorgos Keramidas | Oct 2, 2004 2:06 am | |
| Max Laier | Oct 2, 2004 2:24 am | |
| Giorgos Keramidas | Oct 2, 2004 3:19 am | |
| Greg Black | Oct 2, 2004 3:57 am | |
| Ceri Davies | Oct 2, 2004 4:22 am | |
| Ceri Davies | Oct 2, 2004 4:25 am | |
| Max Laier | Oct 2, 2004 4:51 am | |
| Peter Jeremy | Oct 2, 2004 5:43 am | |
| Dimitry Andric | Oct 2, 2004 7:48 am | |
| Simon L. Nielsen | Oct 2, 2004 8:03 am | |
| Sean Farley | Oct 2, 2004 8:41 am | |
| Sam | Oct 2, 2004 8:54 am | |
| Jacques A. Vidrine | Oct 2, 2004 9:46 am | |
| Tillman Hodgson | Oct 2, 2004 9:51 am | |
| Lee Harr | Oct 2, 2004 9:53 am | |
| Tillman Hodgson | Oct 2, 2004 9:55 am | |
| Giorgos Keramidas | Oct 2, 2004 10:10 am | |
| Giorgos Keramidas | Oct 2, 2004 10:55 am | |
| Giorgos Keramidas | Oct 2, 2004 10:56 am | |
| Tillman Hodgson | Oct 2, 2004 11:09 am | |
| Doug Russell | Oct 2, 2004 11:37 am | |
| David Schultz | Oct 2, 2004 11:50 am | |
| David Schultz | Oct 2, 2004 12:01 pm | |
| Michael Reifenberger | Oct 2, 2004 12:16 pm | |
| Doug Russell | Oct 2, 2004 12:18 pm | |
| Michael Reifenberger | Oct 2, 2004 12:26 pm | |
| Dmitry Frolov | Oct 2, 2004 12:37 pm | |
| Doug Russell | Oct 2, 2004 12:48 pm | |
| David Schultz | Oct 2, 2004 1:11 pm | |
| Michael Reifenberger | Oct 2, 2004 1:49 pm | |
| Tillman Hodgson | Oct 2, 2004 2:05 pm | |
| Garance A Drosihn | Oct 2, 2004 2:22 pm | |
| Ceri Davies | Oct 2, 2004 3:00 pm | |
| sor...@cydem.org | Oct 2, 2004 3:11 pm | |
| Giorgos Keramidas | Oct 2, 2004 4:28 pm | |
| Giorgos Keramidas | Oct 2, 2004 4:28 pm | |
| David Schultz | Oct 2, 2004 5:19 pm | |
| M. Warner Losh | Oct 2, 2004 6:26 pm | |
| M. Warner Losh | Oct 2, 2004 6:28 pm | |
| M. Warner Losh | Oct 2, 2004 6:29 pm | |
| Giorgos Keramidas | Oct 2, 2004 6:53 pm | |
| Thomas David Rivers | Oct 2, 2004 6:53 pm | |
| M. Warner Losh | Oct 2, 2004 7:07 pm | |
| Doug Russell | Oct 2, 2004 7:11 pm | |
| Tillman Hodgson | Oct 2, 2004 8:09 pm | |
| Tillman Hodgson | Oct 2, 2004 8:11 pm | |
| David Schultz | Oct 2, 2004 11:31 pm | |
| Sam Lawrance | Oct 3, 2004 12:35 am | |
| Chris Howells | Oct 3, 2004 5:07 am | |
| Mike Meyer | Oct 3, 2004 5:07 am | |
| Mike Meyer | Oct 3, 2004 5:07 am | |
| M. Warner Losh | Oct 3, 2004 10:37 am | |
| Greg Shenaut | Oct 3, 2004 11:14 am | |
| Dmitry Morozovsky | Oct 3, 2004 11:28 am | |
| Thomas Sparrevohn | Oct 3, 2004 11:40 am | |
| Dag-Erling Smørgrav | Oct 3, 2004 1:33 pm | |
| Roman Neuhauser | Oct 3, 2004 2:59 pm | |
| M. Warner Losh | Oct 3, 2004 6:38 pm | |
| Mark Murray | Oct 4, 2004 1:10 am | |
| Dmitry Karasik | Oct 4, 2004 3:15 am | |
| Dave Horsfall | Oct 4, 2004 3:27 am | |
| Giorgos Keramidas | Oct 4, 2004 3:49 am | |
| Stijn Hoop | Oct 4, 2004 4:52 am | |
| Ceri Davies | Oct 4, 2004 5:33 am | |
| Søren Schmidt | Oct 4, 2004 5:43 am | |
| Chris Howells | Oct 4, 2004 6:16 pm | |
| Chris Dillon | Oct 5, 2004 8:36 am | |
| Sam | Oct 5, 2004 9:03 am | |
| Giorgos Keramidas | Oct 5, 2004 5:12 pm | |
| Giorgos Keramidas | Oct 5, 2004 5:42 pm | |
| Matthew Dillon | Oct 5, 2004 6:30 pm | |
| Matthew Dillon | Oct 5, 2004 6:56 pm | |
| Matthew Dillon | Oct 5, 2004 11:39 pm | |
| Thomas Sparrevohn | Oct 6, 2004 12:49 pm | |
| Lyndon Nerenberg | Oct 28, 2004 5:31 am |
| Subject: | Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /" | |
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| From: | David Schultz (da...@FreeBSD.ORG) | |
| Date: | Oct 2, 2004 11:50:21 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-hackers | |
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004, Michael Reifenberger wrote:
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 11:19:28 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <kera...@freebsd.org> To: free...@freebsd.org Subject: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"
John Beck, who works for Sun, has posted an entry in his blog yesterday about "rm -fr /" protection, which I liked a lot: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jbeck/20041001#rm_rf_protection
His idea was remarkably simple, so I went ahead and wrote this patch for rm(1) of FreeBSD:
This does only help for the obvious case of '/' but not for the './' and '../' or '../../' ... accidents.
Furthermore does it prevent root from doing `rm -rf /` which is a pretty legal operation for root since he knows what he is doing.
This is UNIX, not Windows.
Do you also want to be able to swap to the root partition while it's mounted? We can bring back that feature, too. But personally, I don't see anything wrong with the view that operations that are guaranteed to shoot people in the foot should be disallowed.