Comments on: The power of misused rm command on Ubuntu Linux http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/the-power-of-misused-rm-command-on-ubuntu-linux/ bapoumba's blog Thu, 23 May 2013 11:44:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Moc źle stosowanej komendy rm w Ubuntu. :: Czytelnia http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/the-power-of-misused-rm-command-on-ubuntu-linux/#comment-2000 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:22:28 +0000 http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/the-power-of-misused-rm-command-on-ubuntu-linux/#comment-2000 [...] Tłumaczenie na podstawie “The power of misused rm command on Ubuntu Linux”. [...]

]]> By: lenswipe http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/the-power-of-misused-rm-command-on-ubuntu-linux/#comment-1957 Sun, 18 May 2008 02:42:18 +0000 http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/the-power-of-misused-rm-command-on-ubuntu-linux/#comment-1957 there are some big loosers out ther thats for sure!

]]> By: bapoumba http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/the-power-of-misused-rm-command-on-ubuntu-linux/#comment-1894 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 06:55:50 +0000 http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/the-power-of-misused-rm-command-on-ubuntu-linux/#comment-1894 @ hippie: No problem, please do so :)

]]> By: hippie http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/the-power-of-misused-rm-command-on-ubuntu-linux/#comment-1893 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:58:03 +0000 http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/the-power-of-misused-rm-command-on-ubuntu-linux/#comment-1893 Hi!
I think your article is really good :) I want to translate it to Polish Ubuntu community (http://ubuntu.pl). The article will be placed in http://czytelnia.ubuntu.pl/ website where we publice lots of articles, felietons and news. So there is my question… Can I translate your article and publice it there?

PS. Link to orginal article will be placed at the end of translation, of course :)

]]> By: Malicious commands that can compromize a Linux system « b-initials http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/the-power-of-misused-rm-command-on-ubuntu-linux/#comment-873 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:47:49 +0000 http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/the-power-of-misused-rm-command-on-ubuntu-linux/#comment-873 [...] that can compromize a Linux system November 28, 2007 — bapoumba Following up on a previous entry and on K.Mandla’s article, here is a link to a Sotfpedia article by Marius Nestor, inspired [...]

]]> By: bapoumba http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/the-power-of-misused-rm-command-on-ubuntu-linux/#comment-807 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:45:22 +0000 http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/the-power-of-misused-rm-command-on-ubuntu-linux/#comment-807 Yes, I know. The only way we have (in addition to basic moderation tools) is to educate new users, warn them not to blindly run commands etc. Would you see anything to edit/add in the UF announcement? Thanks.

]]> By: Dr Small http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/the-power-of-misused-rm-command-on-ubuntu-linux/#comment-800 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:00:07 +0000 http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/the-power-of-misused-rm-command-on-ubuntu-linux/#comment-800 This is all fine and dandy to post big long articles about not to run these commands, but they can be easily encrypted, so when this new user sees the command he says,

“Hmm. I’m a newbie. I have no idea what this does, it looks funny, but this guy is more experienced than I. Besides, it doesn’t have any of the commands in it as I was warned not to run, so it must be safe…”

And really,
aa="f"; ab="r"; ac="m"; az="/"; ag="o"; ae="u"; af="d"; ad="s";$($ad$ae$af$ag $ab$ac -$ab$aa $az)
Is as dangerous as,
sudo rm -rf /

Only the former is encrypted and the latter one isn’t.

]]> By: bapoumba http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/the-power-of-misused-rm-command-on-ubuntu-linux/#comment-638 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:12:22 +0000 http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/the-power-of-misused-rm-command-on-ubuntu-linux/#comment-638 Yeah, I had doubts about this, and forgot to check it further, sorry. When I wrote, I had the idea to talk about unmounted partitions but dropped it.
I’m going to take that part out, an empty /home won’t make any difference to the user.

Thanks a lot for pointing this out :)

]]> By: Stefano Rivera http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/the-power-of-misused-rm-command-on-ubuntu-linux/#comment-637 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:04:40 +0000 http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/the-power-of-misused-rm-command-on-ubuntu-linux/#comment-637 > including /home if not installed on a separate partition

I’m not sure that’s correct. rm -rf will cross mounts.

It won’t delete ‘/home’ the directory, but it will delete it’s contents.

]]> By: bapoumba http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/the-power-of-misused-rm-command-on-ubuntu-linux/#comment-609 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:24:45 +0000 http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/the-power-of-misused-rm-command-on-ubuntu-linux/#comment-609 @ Yann: they are behind a proxy..

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