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Shortening the rope (around RH's neck)

Shortening the rope (around RH's neck)

Posted Apr 4, 2009 7:17 UTC (Sat) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)
In reply to: Shortening the rope (around RH's neck) by nix
Parent article: Shortening the rope

chattr +i would stop any changes at all to a file, including normal version upgrades of executables. Something like safe-rm is a bit more focused on preventing accidental deletions. However, "chattr +i / /usr" might be a good idea as it doesn't depend on someone using safe-rm etc.


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