On Fri, 05 Aug 2011, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz at 04/08/11 21:26 did gyre > and gimble: > > Helo, > > > > As my experience in security field, to make Mageia more available in > > enterprise > > environments, and specially those that are security paranoid, i'm planning > > to > > port SRM. SRM is a package that does a "secure" file deleting according > > some > > security standards (i dont remember right now names, i guess it is > > something > > in NIST, but that doesnt matter really). > > > > My question is, what should be the procedure that when you install srm, > > then > > the normal rm command could be replaced? i was thinking in pushing an > > alias > > but what other alternatives do i have? > > Well you could theoretically use alternatives, but I would suspect that > such a fundamental tool as rm would probably be very dangerous to > package in that way (the alternatives scripts themselves may use rm!) > > So I think an alias would be best, but it'll only cover users/scripts > calling rm and not general unlinking... It likely won't cover GUIs and > other deletion methods. With that in mind, is it work aliasing rm at all > seeing as it'll only catch a subset of "delete" operations? You wouldn't > want to give a false sense of security after all...
Yes, this would be better done on filesystem/kernel. Like this : http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/26548
