[Mageia-dev] RM replacement

Fri Aug 5 00:55:54 CEST 2011

'Twas brillig, and Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz at 04/08/11 21:26 did gyre
+and gimble:
+> Helo,
+> 
+> As my experience in security field, to make Mageia more available in enterprise 
+> environments, and specially those that are security paranoid, i'm planning to 
+> port SRM.  SRM is a package that does a "secure" file deleting according some 
+> security standards (i dont remember right now names, i guess it is something 
+> in NIST, but that doesnt matter really).
+> 
+> My question is, what should be the procedure that when you install srm, then 
+> the normal rm command could be replaced?  i was thinking in pushing an alias 
+> but what other alternatives do i have?
+
+Well you could theoretically use alternatives, but I would suspect that
+such a fundamental tool as rm would probably be very dangerous to
+package in that way (the alternatives scripts themselves may use rm!)
+
+So I think an alias would be best, but it'll only cover users/scripts
+calling rm and not general unlinking... It likely won't cover GUIs and
+other deletion methods. With that in mind, is it work aliasing rm at all
+seeing as it'll only catch a subset of "delete" operations? You wouldn't
+want to give a false sense of security after all...
+
+Col
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+mageia(at)colin.guthr.ie
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
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