iLiad Bricked My Iliad - Page 3

jayk · 04-09-2007, 05:02 PM

Hey Adam B.

A thought occurred to me... One of the things I occasionally do on freebsd/linux machines I've set up where people aside from me will have root access... If you put a file called -i in the really important directories - like / and /etc and /boot for example, it will force rm to prompt even if the -f flag was provided, because the shell interprets the rm -rf * as: rm -rf -i restoffiles

You can accomplish it easily by:

Code:

touch -- /-i /etc/-i

should make it much harder to accidentally erase everything with an errant rm -rf - it won't stop everything - but it adds a little safety.

JayK

nekokami · 04-09-2007, 05:22 PM

Good tip! I'd recommend that iRex add this to the iLiad by default. (And I'm going to put it on the Ubuntu server at work tomorrow.)

04-09-2007, 05:02 PM	#31
jayk Enthusiast Posts: 26 Karma: 201 Join Date: Mar 2007 Device: Iliad	On making it unbrickable Hey Adam B. A thought occurred to me... One of the things I occasionally do on freebsd/linux machines I've set up where people aside from me will have root access... If you put a file called -i in the really important directories - like / and /etc and /boot for example, it will force rm to prompt even if the -f flag was provided, because the shell interprets the rm -rf * as: rm -rf -i restoffiles You can accomplish it easily by: Code: touch -- /-i /etc/-i should make it much harder to accidentally erase everything with an errant rm -rf - it won't stop everything - but it adds a little safety. JayK

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04-09-2007, 05:22 PM	#32
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	Good tip! I'd recommend that iRex add this to the iLiad by default. (And I'm going to put it on the Ubuntu server at work tomorrow.)

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