tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568130245619806374.post8937626747207503986..comments2023-07-13T15:21:56.218+03:00Comments on Echoes: Careful with That Command, EugeneCraciun Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03828173788831953470noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568130245619806374.post-9628791457366539132008-05-31T00:30:00.000+03:002008-05-31T00:30:00.000+03:00It's not much of a failsafe since there's also an ...It's not much of a failsafe since there's also an option that disables it. Besides, the whole idea is flawed. The "failsafe" is very crude, mostly useless and it was pretty much a waste of time to implement it.<BR/><BR/>Like the previous commenter said, if you're gonna copy and past console commands blindly then you can get burned.<BR/><BR/>You don't need to delete everything to hose your system, you can just as well delete /etc (and that failsafe that was added to rm won't protect you against that).<BR/><BR/>Besides, <B>rm -rf /</B> is just one malicious command. There are plenty other commands you can use to destroy the installed system. Even <B>cat</B> or <B>echo</B> can be evil if you're doing it with admin priviledges.<BR/><BR/>So the point is "think before you imitate" and I think the Ubuntu community has taken a very nice approach in spreading the word about this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568130245619806374.post-54904731855249258782008-05-30T23:28:00.000+03:002008-05-30T23:28:00.000+03:00That's a good think to know. I wasn't sure, but I ...That's a good think to know. I wasn't sure, but I suspected a workaround will be found to this.Craciun Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03828173788831953470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568130245619806374.post-48487744735728833382008-05-30T22:48:00.000+03:002008-05-30T22:48:00.000+03:00I don't speak/read/write Italian, so here goes wit...I don't speak/read/write Italian, so here goes with English. I appreciate the solidarity of the Ubuntu community, but if someone tells you to run a command that you've never heard of before, you should prolly spend 2 seconds googling it instead of blindly running it. Oh, and the new rm in coreutils doesn't allow rm -rf / to work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com