[Mageia-dev] RM replacement

Fri Aug 5 02:03:22 CEST 2011

On Fri, 05 Aug 2011, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+
+> '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...
+
+Yes, this would be better done on filesystem/kernel. Like this :
+http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/26548
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