safe-rm is intended to prevent the accidental
deletion of important
files by replacing /bin/rm with a wrapper which
checks the given
arguments against a configurable blacklist of
files and directories
that should never be removed. Users who attempt to
delete one of these
protected files or directories will not be able to
do so and will be
shown a warning message instead. Protected paths
can be set both at the
site and user levels.
License: GNU General Public License v3
Changes:
The main change in this release is a fix for a bug that was preventing the root directory from being added to the list of protected paths. Safe-rm is now able to protect you from the infamous “rm -rf /”.