Thread (12 messages) 12 messages, 6 authors, 2016-08-21

Re: Strange behavior after "rm -rf //"

From: Christian Kujau <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-12 06:16:04

On Fri, 12 Aug 2016, Russell Coker wrote:
There are a variety of ways of giving the same result that rm
doesn't reject. "/*" Wasn't caught last time I checked. See the above 
URL if you want to test out various rm operations as root. ;)
Oh, yes - "rm -r /*" would work, even with a current coreutils version. 
But since the OP stated "rm -rf //" I was curious about the userspace
part on that.

Thanks for the link to the SELinux playground, nice setup!

Christian.
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