rm -rf * What would it do and why would you use it?

[fp at casabellagallery.com]

Marked posted:

> 
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 06:18:04PM -0700, fp at casabellagallery.com may or may not have
> proven themselves an utter git by pronouncing:
> > I don't even want to know why would any one wonder
> > what effect would this have if he/she used it in 
> > the fpgroups.com site.
> > 
> > Sad, very sad!
> 
> I don't get it.  Did someone actually threaten you with this somewhere?
> Are you just upset enough with the feedback you're considering doing it
> yourself?  Someone suggest there's an arbitrary code execution somewhere
> that could be exploited in such a way?  What?  
> 
> I haven't seen any reference to it in relation to your site before now on
> this list, so...  Mind cluing us in on what you're talking about?
> 

Some one logged in last night using rm -rf * as a user ID at about 9:00 PM
last night.  I'm not sure who actually did but I traced the IP (166.82.96.28) 
and it goes back to Walter Vaughan from Steel Rubber.

Not to approve of it is one thing, to post messages disapproving of it is
about the same, but to go to the extend of attempting to do something like
what the command could do really takes it to the lowest level.


Jose