[Gllug] MS & LSE ROFL!

[Jason Clifford]

On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 19:04 +0000, t.clarke wrote:
> I solved the 'whoops I have accidentally deleted my file' problem by replacing
> rm with an alternative that saves the file away somewhere (eitehr by a move or
> a copy-and-delete).  The original rm was renamed something else so is still
> available where an absolute removal is required!

That's not much protection on any system where the user is able to run
their own perl, python, $whatever scripts which allow them to use
unlink($filename)



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