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<H1>[Mageia-dev] RM replacement</H1>
<B>nicolas vigier</B>
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<I>Fri Aug 5 02:03:22 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Fri, 05 Aug 2011, Colin Guthrie wrote:
><i> 'Twas brillig, and Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz at 04/08/11 21:26 did gyre
</I>><i> and gimble:
</I>><i> > Helo,
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > As my experience in security field, to make Mageia more available in enterprise
</I>><i> > environments, and specially those that are security paranoid, i'm planning to
</I>><i> > port SRM. SRM is a package that does a "secure" file deleting according some
</I>><i> > security standards (i dont remember right now names, i guess it is something
</I>><i> > in NIST, but that doesnt matter really).
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > My question is, what should be the procedure that when you install srm, then
</I>><i> > the normal rm command could be replaced? i was thinking in pushing an alias
</I>><i> > but what other alternatives do i have?
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</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!)
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</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>
Yes, this would be better done on filesystem/kernel. Like this :
<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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