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You don't want to accidentally delete or write to things and this command seems like an accident waiting to happen. A command whitelist would be very helpful bu
by nabakin 6y ago
You don't want to accidentally delete or write to things and this command seems like an accident waiting to happen. A command whitelist would be very helpful but it doesn't look like UP has one.
- dmingod666 6y agoYes, even a blacklist with obvious ones listed would be cool. Imagine just typing the characters rm and you're gone..
- michaelmior 6y agoGood point. That's a big problem. I could conceivably have a perfectly harmless tool where a prefix of the name is something dangerous.
- akavel 6y agoOne of the reasons for not doing this is that I decided I don't want to lure the users into a false sense of security. A comment by hnlmorg basically sums this up better than I could: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26645875 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26645875 (The other being, that I was cutting corners on my initial ideas brutally trying to push the tool out of the door, and it's still kind of a miracle I eventually managed to do that.)