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<H1>[Mageia-dev] RM replacement</H1>
<B>Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz</B>
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<I>Fri Aug 5 02:16:39 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>Le Vendredi 05 Août 2011 02:03:22 nicolas vigier a écrit :
><i> On Fri, 05 Aug 2011, Colin Guthrie wrote:
</I>><i> > 'Twas brillig, and Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz at 04/08/11 21:26 did gyre
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > and gimble:
</I>><i> > > Helo,
</I>><i> > >
</I>><i> > > As my experience in security field, to make Mageia more available in
</I>><i> > > enterprise environments, and specially those that are security
</I>><i> > > paranoid, i'm planning to port SRM. SRM is a package that does a
</I>><i> > > "secure" file deleting according some security standards (i dont
</I>><i> > > remember right now names, i guess it is something in NIST, but that
</I>><i> > > doesnt matter really).
</I>><i> > >
</I>><i> > > My question is, what should be the procedure that when you install
</I>><i> > > srm, then the normal rm command could be replaced? i was thinking
</I>><i> > > in pushing an alias but what other alternatives do i have?
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > Well you could theoretically use alternatives, but I would suspect that
</I>><i> > such a fundamental tool as rm would probably be very dangerous to
</I>><i> > package in that way (the alternatives scripts themselves may use rm!)
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > So I think an alias would be best, but it'll only cover users/scripts
</I>><i> > calling rm and not general unlinking... It likely won't cover GUIs and
</I>><i> > other deletion methods. With that in mind, is it work aliasing rm at all
</I>><i> > seeing as it'll only catch a subset of "delete" operations? You wouldn't
</I>><i> > want to give a false sense of security after all...
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Yes, this would be better done on filesystem/kernel. Like this :
</I>><i> <A HREF="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/26548">http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/26548</A>
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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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