Georges-Henry Portefait wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just trashed a 2 page answers to Michael Johnson, and I did right
> because yours is quite better !!
>
> Everyone as to learn... like I m trying to do.
>
> Being used to M$ systems does not help people to read the
> documentation.. if you do, you will not even understand your question
> ...
> if you ever find an answer !! :(
>
> If you have a NT box (4.0) try looking in the help from the start menu
> search 'Defrag' You will probably laugh... because it s so pathetic, it
> prevent's you from crying.
>
> Best regards to all
>
> GH Portefait
>
> "Dana J. Laude" wrote:
> >
> > Michael Johnson wrote:
>
> >
> > First off, since I started this thread..., thanks to all that helped
> > with my original question. Now specifically to Michael, you have a
> > very valid point, it just seems that those coming into Linux from the
> > Windows world are totally unaware of most, if not all of the security
> > issues with Linux. Now, SuSE has a pretty good manual..., but it
>
> [...snipped..]
>
> > what they are doing. (well, at least in *most* cases)
> >
> > That's about it. ;)
>
Hello everybody,
yapp, this is a long thread. I entirely agree with Michael. Securety
*is* an issue. We must be aware of it, no matter wether it realy counts
or not. I "su" a lot from my xterms to alter / view the nonpublic
conf-files, kill restart deamons when experimenting.
I do not know wether sudo would help me in every case. I did use sudo in
the pre KDE days to shut down as a "user".
For those that read more than the occasional man page, here is the first
"read a book" suggestion of the year:
Cliffort Stoll,
The Cuckoo's Egg. Inside the world of Computer Espionage.
Publisher: Doubleday, New York.
It's about the german hackers that went for seesighting tours through
the old arpanet in the mid 80's. Cliff tried to follow them back from a
65 cents difference in two parallel running accounting systems on his
machine. If you want to get a "feeling" for securety, read it.
Juergen
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