ok, but "rm -rf ~" is pretty destructive too! decode for non unix users: ~ is a wildcard that substitutes for the current user's home directory, whatever that is.
On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 17:00, Anders Hultman wrote: > On Wed, 19 May 2004, John Francis wrote: > > > Anyone can *try* rm -rf / > > The root user would succeed in deleting everything. A regular user > > wouldn't be able to delete the OS itself, but would be able to wipe > > out all their own data files. That's devastating enough :-( > > A regular user wouldn't actually be able to delete anything with the > infamous "rm -rf /" command. Not even her own files. The delete-everything > attempt starts at the top directory, but a regular user has no permissions > to delete anything in that directory, so the recursion stops there. > > The user won't get to delete files in /home/username since she can't > delete /home to begin with. > > anders > ------------------------- > http://anders.hultman.nu/ > med dagens bild och allt! >
