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And What Exactly Will sudo rm -rf Do?
Dec 6, 2007, 01 :00 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (7484 reads)

"The furor around the sudo rm -rf clowns has subsided (but will no doubt resurface in the future), but just for the record, what will that command do?

"Our guinea pig today is the naive and unsuspecting ugly laptop, this time running an arbitrary leftover installation of Lowarch, which I was using to recreate those fbpanel settings for the occasional person who wants to make Openbox look like Gnome..."

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Try this on your Microsoft OS's:fdis ...   not just for *nix   
Fred Williams
Dec 6, 2007, 01:51:39
 
Presumably, add-ons like SeLinux address ...   Flaw in legacy OS security model?   
Yim
Dec 6, 2007, 22:57:44
 
> If you blindly follow instructions you ...   Re: not just for *nix   
blackhole
Dec 7, 2007, 08:59:51
 
> Presumably, add-ons like SeLinux addre ...   Re: Flaw in legacy OS security model?   
Rainer Weikusat
Dec 7, 2007, 13:18:54
 
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