Whenever I patrol the PAWS nfs server I see a lot of uses of 'freeroot.'
I have never used freeroot but as I understand it it's a way of installing a full OS into unprivileged userspace. Often when I see it it's alongside a full ubuntu24.qcow2 or similar OS image.
I tend to assume these are wrappers for miners or other CPU-stealing applications. In theory PAWS provides ready-made exec environments for common use cases. It's a little hard for me to imagine how you would write a useful notebook that includes a full bespoke execution environment... but maybe that's just a failure of my imagination?
I would like to enhance the scan-and-shrink script to find and destroy the contents of any directory named 'freeroot.' Will that also eliminate legit use-cases? And even if it's possible that it will, is it likely?