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Autore: Martin Steigerwald
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To: dng
Oggetto: Re: [DNG] Yeah, what can even possibly go wrong? Deleting /home can go wrong!
Kevin Chadwick via Dng - 21.06.24, 11:58:30 CEST:
> On 19/06/2024 16:11, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > But still… that is exactly what can go wrong with an approach like
> > this.
> Designing footguns into your software is a new low isn't it? How much
> design goes on in the systemd camp actually. I am thinking, not a great
> deal considering their resolvd had cves avoided by all the existing
> solutions.


The thing is… even as in this case the config file for /home is provided by
the distro. How on Earth can it be a good idea to let that command just
remove everything inside of directories supplied by configuration files that
anyone could put in there?

Such an approach would be an immediate red flag to me.

I wrote some software for AmigaOS back in the time, but deleting stuff
pointed to by random configuration files never came into my mind as a valid
use case for anything. I always had the notion: In case you delete
something you need to be extra, extra, extra careful.

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Martin