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Re: Policy on Account creation and deletion?



On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 04:47:46PM +0100, Florent Rougon wrote:
[...] 
> Also, I'm not sure now that Andreas was thinking about the same thing as
> I (the wording of my question was a bit ambiguous). I was talking about
> the general case of an "rm -rf /path" where /path is absolute and does
> not contain any variable expansion;

Yes, I was.

> it might be, due to the context of the discussion, that Andreas was
> thinking about the home directory of some user (like your
> Debian-exim) used for a specific program---where the admin might
> have deemed clever to put files related to the program in question.

No, this was just a genernal note about the danger of 
"rm -rf /some/path", I agree that this is not clear-cut.
                 cu andreas



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