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Re: Shred and symbolic links. People use it like a safer "rm" and get... |
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Thu, 2 Oct 2008 00:18:45 +0200 |
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I finally found the "wipe" program (http://abaababa.ouvaton.org/wipe/ ,
available in the Ubuntu/Kubuntu packages) that does what a normal user needs.
By default: "wipe" will never follow symlinks and it has parameters like:
-r recurse into subdirectories
Will allow the removal of the entire directory tree. Symbolic
links are not followed.
directories will be renamed 10 times (shred doesn't rename them). What a fast
way to finish with a sensitive folder without shredding information outside
(due to symlinks).
We can use "wipe" but it is not a GNU/coreutils program :-( , Shred can be
adapted to those issues for the normal users as wipe has done ("wipe *"
without the burdening of checking first if there are symlinks, "wipe -r
<directory>" also shredding directory names).
Thanks for all.
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