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Quoth purslow@×××××××××.ca (Sat 2004-05-29 08:49:21PM -0400): |
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> given that 'rm' automatically rejects '..' & '.' in these circumstances, |
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> it really shd also reject '/' & '~' (incl '/home/username'). |
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> i wonder whether the Gentoo developers cd fix the Gentoo version to do that ? |
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This sort of "fix" actually creates a *more* dangerous situation. As |
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with 'alias rm "rm -i"', it can save you from yourself... until you |
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logon to a machine without the safeguard, and now you have been |
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conditioned to believe that 'rm' is not really that dangerous. |
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I believe the best course of action is not to modify rm's behaviour |
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in any way, so that you get into the habit of using it carefully. |
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Of course, if you only use your own machine(s), and you can guarantee |
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that rm will always be aliased or whatever to make it safe, I have no |
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argument. |
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However, having the Gentoo project make rm "safe by default" is |
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unacceptable because many Gentoo users are sysadmins, and sysadmins |
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cannot afford to be careless with rm. |
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