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Authored by: garumph on Fri, Feb 29 2008 at 10:50AM PST

I have fired sysadmins who try this crap. NEVER redefine dangerous commands, create new ones and use those. I had a manufacturing line offline for a week because of things like this.

Use del or rmm or srm, anything, just not rm.

plus the fallout from the unexpected action for scripts could cause more damage.

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Authored by: barko192 on Fri, Feb 29 2008 at 11:59AM PST

What about on a personal system?
If you are the only user, why shouldn't you be able to change commands as you see fit.
I don't want to change my rm, but if someone does and no one else has to use that computer, I don't see why they shouldn't be able to.