On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 23:41:43 GMT
christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas) wrote:

> In article <874ql8pwtb.fsf@snark.piermont.com>,
> Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
> >
> >Solaris 10 doesn't allow "rm -rf /" -- should we do the same?
> >
> >http://blog.sun.com/roller/page/jbeck/20041001#rm_rf_protection
> 
> What next? Forbidding 'cd / && rm -rf *'?
> 
> christos

Absolutely. We should definately child-proof our OS. 
Newfs will need to  be encased in Nerf. Also, we'll get rid of the pesky
-exec option for find and the pernicious -y option for fsck. 

We would'nt be giving up any freedom as administrators, just gaining
limits on our freedom - a new feature we could call "freedom plus". :-)

-- 
Harry Waddell
Caravan Electronic Publishing
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