From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E9jKG-0000uy-JS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:05:25 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7TD24XM021926; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:02:04 GMT Received: from lmfilto02.st1.spray.net (lmfilto02.st1.spray.net [212.78.202.66]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7TCvDxM028328 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:57:14 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lmfilto02.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58B5F1A0F39 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:59:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cmcodec06.st1.spray.net ([212.78.203.82]) by localhost (lmfilto02.st1.spray.net [212.78.202.32]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 08444-06 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:59:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cmcodec06.st1.spray.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cmcodec06.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C56C10D68B for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:59:09 +0000 (GMT) Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=lycos.co.uk; h=From:Subject; b=AZtc17IxJdkdFG/UUUJp19mxcggGFuAMawlsV6mWrNHGvMLSXozpxChgSVKSHZ+LLvjjigNiMU0HGsP9S/JDpapUFaFAItyJPCIN+0t19dxAX7M0qv0x3NJ1YFWHRm/O1t6s/g5g1y++a5A55cJjK/F3PfQx1acCjbhj0QBGdVY=; From: "Michael Kintzios" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: <7925530655061@lycos-europe.com> X-Mailer: LycosMail X-Priority: 3 X-Originating-IP: 213.162.120.196 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] How to shred without deleting /dev/* Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=_NextPart_Lycos_5061792553066_ID" Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:59:09 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at spray.net X-Archives-Salt: 162ed24f-1e66-4682-bc48-54dcbe0dbb7e X-Archives-Hash: 31313cfcb13b0ebaa60de13526a445c3 This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --=_NextPart_Lycos_5061792553066_ID Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > From:: Renat Golubchyk > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to shred without deleting /dev/* > Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:35:28 +0200 > > Why was it deleted? Did you run the command as root? Well, yes because when I run it as a plain user I am denied access: ==================== $ shred -u -v /dev/fd0 shred: /dev/fd0: Permission denied ==================== > What's wrong with good old dd? How about > $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 > You can also use /dev/random if it has to be more secure. For even more > security run it multiple times in a loop. There's nothing wrong with dd, but I see no reason to create my own script to extend the basic dd functionality. I would rather use shred which does everything I want it to do - if only I can avoid the deletion if the device node itself. -- Regards, Mick Lycos email has now 300 Megabytes of free storage... Get it now at mail.lycos.co.uk --=_NextPart_Lycos_5061792553066_ID-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list