Comments on: Should Ubuntu prevent “sudo rm -rf /” command ? http://blog.mypapit.net/2007/12/should-ubuntu-prevent-sudo-rm-rf-command.html Free and Open Source blogger with an attitude Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:07:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: endolith http://blog.mypapit.net/2007/12/should-ubuntu-prevent-sudo-rm-rf-command.html/comment-page-1#comment-233480 endolith Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:18:05 +0000 http://blog.mypapit.net/2007/12/should-ubuntu-prevent-sudo-rm-rf-command.html#comment-233480 Newbies shouldn't be messing around on the command line in the first place. Stop telling them to copy and paste commands when there's a perfectly good user interface, and they won't get into the habit of entering stupid commands that destroy their system. Newbies shouldn’t be messing around on the command line in the first place. Stop telling them to copy and paste commands when there’s a perfectly good user interface, and they won’t get into the habit of entering stupid commands that destroy their system.

]]> By: riza http://blog.mypapit.net/2007/12/should-ubuntu-prevent-sudo-rm-rf-command.html/comment-page-1#comment-174528 riza Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:51:37 +0000 http://blog.mypapit.net/2007/12/should-ubuntu-prevent-sudo-rm-rf-command.html#comment-174528 Hi, Attention pleace!!! My name is Riza, I m from Indonesia. Im very need a cd or dvd linux debian 4. pleace send to my address : Country : Indonesia street Jl Cihanjuang Rt 02 rw 19 no 105 Gg H Safei Kelurahan Cibabat Kecamatan Cimahi Utara City : Cimahi code post ; 40513 Province : jawa barat Indonesia. thanks for all attention. Hi, Attention pleace!!! My name is Riza, I m from Indonesia. Im very need a cd or dvd linux debian 4. pleace send to my address :
Country : Indonesia
street Jl Cihanjuang Rt 02 rw 19 no 105 Gg H Safei Kelurahan Cibabat Kecamatan Cimahi Utara
City : Cimahi
code post ; 40513
Province : jawa barat
Indonesia.
thanks for all attention.

]]> By: riza http://blog.mypapit.net/2007/12/should-ubuntu-prevent-sudo-rm-rf-command.html/comment-page-1#comment-174519 riza Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:39:36 +0000 http://blog.mypapit.net/2007/12/should-ubuntu-prevent-sudo-rm-rf-command.html#comment-174519 Hi, Attention pleace!!! My name is Riza, I m from Indonesia. Im very need a cd or dvd linux debian 4. pleace send to my address : Country : Indonesia street Jl Cihanjuang Rt 02 rw 19 no 105 Gg H Safei Kelurahan Cibabat Kecamatan Cimahi Utara City : Cimahi Province : jawa barat Indonesia. thanks for all attention. Hi, Attention pleace!!! My name is Riza, I m from Indonesia. Im very need a cd or dvd linux debian 4. pleace send to my address :
Country : Indonesia
street Jl Cihanjuang Rt 02 rw 19 no 105 Gg H Safei Kelurahan Cibabat Kecamatan Cimahi Utara
City : Cimahi
Province : jawa barat
Indonesia.
thanks for all attention.

]]> By: Gunblade http://blog.mypapit.net/2007/12/should-ubuntu-prevent-sudo-rm-rf-command.html/comment-page-1#comment-174477 Gunblade Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:28:32 +0000 http://blog.mypapit.net/2007/12/should-ubuntu-prevent-sudo-rm-rf-command.html#comment-174477 I had to be agreed with all of you. As for me, the best solution for this problem is to show warning when user implement the "rm -rf /" command before executing. That's the best way to prevent newbie user from unintendedly deleting all of the files by committing rm -rf command. But totally banned this command is not the best solution. I had to be agreed with all of you. As for me, the best solution for this problem is to show warning when user implement the “rm -rf /” command before executing.

That’s the best way to prevent newbie user from unintendedly deleting all of the files by committing rm -rf command. But totally banned this command is not the best solution.

]]> By: Planet Lowyat http://blog.mypapit.net/2007/12/should-ubuntu-prevent-sudo-rm-rf-command.html/comment-page-1#comment-173576 Planet Lowyat Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:21:56 +0000 http://blog.mypapit.net/2007/12/should-ubuntu-prevent-sudo-rm-rf-command.html#comment-173576 Ho! Ho!Enter rm -rf / now! Ho! Ho!Enter rm -rf / now!

]]> By: egonomico http://blog.mypapit.net/2007/12/should-ubuntu-prevent-sudo-rm-rf-command.html/comment-page-1#comment-173158 egonomico Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:55:09 +0000 http://blog.mypapit.net/2007/12/should-ubuntu-prevent-sudo-rm-rf-command.html#comment-173158 I don't totally agree with Benjamin, I am a new Ubuntu user and I have (many time) copied and pasted commands off a blog and onto a console. Because I am learning, a warning when typing "su" or "sudo" wouldn't be enough, I'd rather have a warning when I type “sudo rm -rf /” so I would know what it really does and be aware of the danger of it. I hope you understand my point of view. Bye. PS: great blog, by the way. I don’t totally agree with Benjamin, I am a new Ubuntu user and I have (many time) copied and pasted commands off a blog and onto a console. Because I am learning, a warning when typing “su” or “sudo” wouldn’t be enough, I’d rather have a warning when I type “sudo rm -rf /” so I would know what it really does and be aware of the danger of it.

I hope you understand my point of view. Bye.

PS: great blog, by the way.

]]> By: Benjamin Schmidt http://blog.mypapit.net/2007/12/should-ubuntu-prevent-sudo-rm-rf-command.html/comment-page-1#comment-166438 Benjamin Schmidt Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:45:04 +0000 http://blog.mypapit.net/2007/12/should-ubuntu-prevent-sudo-rm-rf-command.html#comment-166438 Funny ;) Year this is windows style to protect users from "them self". An linux system like ubuntu, which is optimized for end-users, should in my opinion prevent users from stupid moves in UI area. A console is really not made for end-users, least of all sudo. The should use UI tools. Best would be to show a clear warning when opening a console about the damage he can make. Also when calling sudo and su. Also implementing a confirmation in these tools would be nice (a conf-flag which activates/deactivates this). It's maybe an idee to on end-user os's to protect the very, very important files with "chattr i" (prevent from modifying, renaming, deleting also from superuser). Thanks for your blog. Best regards, Benjamin Schmidt schmidi2 (I hate spam) directbox.com Funny ;)

Year this is windows style to protect users from “them self”.

An linux system like ubuntu, which is optimized for end-users, should in my opinion prevent users from stupid moves in UI area. A console is really not made for end-users, least of all sudo. The should use UI tools.

Best would be to show a clear warning when opening a console about the damage he can make. Also when calling sudo and su. Also implementing a confirmation in these tools would be nice (a conf-flag which activates/deactivates this).

It’s maybe an idee to on end-user os’s to protect the very, very important files with “chattr i” (prevent from modifying, renaming, deleting also from superuser).

Thanks for your blog.

Best regards,
Benjamin Schmidt
schmidi2 (I hate spam) directbox.com

]]> By: Matty http://blog.mypapit.net/2007/12/should-ubuntu-prevent-sudo-rm-rf-command.html/comment-page-1#comment-165955 Matty Sat, 15 Dec 2007 17:08:25 +0000 http://blog.mypapit.net/2007/12/should-ubuntu-prevent-sudo-rm-rf-command.html#comment-165955 The Solaris 10 rm command will error out if you try to remove "/": $ rm -rf / rm of / is not allowed So maybe other OSs could use a similar approach to the one they used?: http://blogs.sun.com/jbeck/date/20041001 The Solaris 10 rm command will error out if you try to remove “/”:

$ rm -rf /
rm of / is not allowed

So maybe other OSs could use a similar approach to the one they used?:

http://blogs.sun.com/jbeck/date/20041001

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