On Wednesday 06 October 2004 10:48, Harry Waddell wrote:
> 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". :-)
> 

I like my freedom! Secure user-mode and leave root alone.

cheerio Berndt