[Mageia-dev] RM replacement

Fri Aug 5 02:16:39 CEST 2011

Le Vendredi 05 Août 2011 02:03:22 nicolas vigier a écrit :
+> 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
+
+I got your poing,  however i remember that SRM uses some specific algorithmis 
+that are recomended in NIST, thats why i remember we chose SRM and we void 
+zero filling techniques.
+
+LD
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