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Re: what is /.udev for ?



Mowgli <Mowgli@ethgen.de> writes:

> Am Mi den  9. Feb 2005 um 22:07 schriebst Du:
> > What led you to do such a thing?  The idea "I don't know what this is,
> > so I should delete it" is rampant, and disastrous.
> 
> I don't think so. Well, maybe not directely removing somethink but the
> Systemadministrator ak root HAS to know about everythink on the system.
> And a /.* directory on my system whould cause me to search for somethink
> like a ijntruser...

But just randomly deleting it isn't going to somehow thwart the
intruder.  So even if you think that "I don't know what this is, so it
must be an intruder", it doesn't follow that removing it will do any
good.



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