WARNING when deleting directories in /var/www/cobbler ???

[Robert Jacobson]

Someone at my org was experimenting with repositories and links on the 
cobbler server, like:

    # ls -ld /var/www/cobbler/repo*
    lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root      34 Mar 19 11:26 repo_mirror ->
    /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror_build/
    drwxr-xr-x.  2 root apache  4096 Mar 19 20:07 repo_mirror_build/
    drwxr-xr-x.  2 root apache  4096 Mar 19 20:08 repo_mirror_patch/

Unfortunately when I ran a "cobbler sync" it deleted both "real" 
directories:

    # cobbler sync
    task started: 2014-03-19_200751_sync
    task started (id=Sync, time=Wed Mar 19 20:07:51 2014)
    running pre-sync triggers
    cleaning trees
    *removing: /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror_build*
    *removing: /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror_patch*

So of course I'm restoring things -- but in the future, could there 
perhaps be a setting that prevents disastrous removal of entire 
repositories?  Or at the very least, a "README" or something in the 
directory that says "DON'T PUT USER DIRECTORIES HERE" or something?

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