Shadow Passwds help and all distributions I can think of use them by default, thus only with root access could a malicious cracker have acces to your passwd and by then he would not really need to.
I have little NT experience, but there are various user-levels and permissions, right? As i understood, unless the user was set to power user or admin he/she could not really do much to change the system. BO could be installed, but would it not only work for that user? I don't see how it would compromise the entire machine. It would only allow the cracker to remove files the user had permission to delete (right?)
I would be curious to know if a cracker who was using BO on an NT machine and a user of that machine with limited permissions and BO infecting their Profile could still restart/shutdown/lockup the machine. I'm guessing not as the user cannot normally do these things.
I am a registered user and I agree with the AC. Although I'll try to make a less flamable comment.
IE5, probably because of its integration with windows, voodoo magic, and the nerve gas MS had reportedly released on the Netscape compound renders faster and appears to be a better contender than Netscape 4.61 and with AOL as its adopted parent I have little hope for netscape's future. Mozilla is in an equally poor condition. My hope lies in opera or a clone of that technology. I also really like Lynx.
nope it's really easy to mess with an NT machine. Just boot off a floppy with linux and NTFS read/write support. I am using kernel 2.3.11 and copying to and from ntfs works fine, but deleting is a little weird. Files I delete on the NT machine seem to be changed to 0kb (effectively deleting them), but remain.
After doing this you are free to play with whatever you like. BTW c:\winnt\repair\SAM._ is a file of the winnt passwd hashmarks. You can import this into a tool such as l0phtcrack and with a little time attain passwds for all accounts on that machine.
Linux is equally vulnerable should the user have access to the actual machine. This is a great flaw in my opinion. My school has circumvented the problem by not allowing the Lab machines to boot off floppies, but users could still physically damage the machines.
In maine. this is Allowed. One may go to the RR webpage and choose advanced access - allowing him to use a RR ID at on any RR modem. Yours might me set to the secure mode and thus requiring your personal modem.
I use RR with linux (Debian 2.2 and RH 6.0) here in Portland, Maine. While they do not support it www.maine.rr.com has a number of cool (but rather old) linux-cable-modem-howto's.
I use RRlogin to authenticate with tas although I'm not sure where it came from (I just have the binary). Has anyone seen a sight with the source? Also, I'd really like to thank the guy who made it and play with the code. (My friend wrote a windows version that is a little slow and may benefit from seeing someone else's ideas)
agreed. If some of the E crap that I do not need can easily be removed (perhaps modules) I'll be happy. Who really needs the raindrops, wave patterns, etc that.16 has to offer?
E is beautiful and relatively fast (but by no means as fast at fvwm or windowmaker), but has too many needless features and the development of useful things (pager for one) is too slow.
I wish them both the best of luck, but I'll stick with WM till E is a little better..16 (from cvs/snapshot) seems to have a pager and few other differences from.15.
How are SuSE, slack, and stampede faster than RedHat? Are they not all optimized for i386? I could see how something like bero-linux (which as I understand is optimized for PPro) or simply downloading source and compiling with i686 optimization would be a little faster.
Is RH really slower? Why? are they not all using the same GNU tools, the same filesystem, and a similiar compiler? Perhaps you are refering to non-custom kernels vs stock kernels?
Perhaps we should write an alpha "Slashdotter's" Browser. It could have all kinds of buttons that do not work (like mozilla) and a insta-flame button for the super-lazy. Hopefully it will keep track of my slashdot passwd too. and eat up 90% of my CPU and memory. And it should have a wyswig (sp?) editor that no one needs and it could have lame bookmarks/favorites that come back even after i delete them (just for kicks). Oh, and of course it should segfault just as i stop mindlessly browsing and begin to do something productive.
The KDE browser rocks (but you gotta run kfm and qt) (SIDE NOTE: Anyone know how to disable the desktop icons that kfm creates? I'd really like to just use it as a web-browser/file manager)
Netscape has not become bloated linux software, it was always this bad. I'm using it now on a p2-450, 256 and its horrible. I switched to Navigator (version 4.61) and set it up to launch mutt for mailto's and netscape has not crashed in weeks!! This beats the heck out of the 3 to 4 crashes a day with netscape-communicator 4.61.
*Guilty secret* I really like lynx. what is stopping someone from making a console based browser with some minor graphical capabilites (image rendering/tables). Anyone know how plausible this would be? I could envision it with a GUI like linuxconf has in RH when executed from the console.
do you have a webpage/howto for vpn. I looked at vpnd but i'm not sure it is what i want. It refers to modems/slip while i am on a 10mb lan. Can anyone offer success stories, etc?
... has a similiar directory structure for their RPMS. Why does this make Debian superior?
Maybe you can help me out with this one:
1. how does one upgrade a debian box if a security issue is found with a package?
2. What exactly does apt-get update actually do (it seems to just change a few gzipped files on my machine representing the directory structure of the debian ftp site) Does ir get packages which have been changed due to security related issues?
3. DOes anyone have a script/howto for making debs. RPMS seem really easy, but the stuff for debs on the debian site seemed a litte too confusing.
4. Has the debian open-source manual been released, yet?
The average computer users (Windows/Macintosh) where I'm from (a University in North America) call me for information on how to drag icons to the trash/recycle bin, in fact, I had a 45 minute call with someone who simply wanted to ftp to our local webserver! (These are professional staff/faculty, not students)
This leads me to believe that knowledge of unix/C is a little special and therefore I've the right to flame once and a while. I am not claiming to know everything, but I feel I am more familiar with technology than many people writing online articles criticizing my beloved linux.
BTW- BEos rocks and if Scott Hacker cared to convice the linux community of this he could send us each a free copy for tinkering:) (Like that will ever happen)
Slashdot Mirror
It is on the Sci-Fi channel which all but guarantees year after year of re-runs of the existing episodes.
Shadow Passwds help and all distributions I can think of use them by default, thus only with root access could a malicious cracker have acces to your passwd and by then he would not really need to.
I have little NT experience, but there are various user-levels and permissions, right? As i understood, unless the user was set to power user or admin he/she could not really do much to change the system. BO could be installed, but would it not only work for that user? I don't see how it would compromise the entire machine. It would only allow the cracker to remove files the user had permission to delete (right?)
I would be curious to know if a cracker who was using BO on an NT machine and a user of that machine with limited permissions and BO infecting their Profile could still restart/shutdown/lockup the machine. I'm guessing not as the user cannot normally do these things.
win 9x is another story..
I am a registered user and I agree with the AC. Although I'll try to make a less flamable comment.
IE5, probably because of its integration with windows, voodoo magic, and the nerve gas MS had reportedly released on the Netscape compound renders faster and appears to be a better contender than Netscape 4.61 and with AOL as its adopted parent I have little hope for netscape's future. Mozilla is in an equally poor condition. My hope lies in opera or a clone of that technology. I also really like Lynx.
nope it's really easy to mess with an NT machine. Just boot off a floppy with linux and NTFS read/write support. I am using kernel 2.3.11 and copying to and from ntfs works fine, but deleting is a little weird. Files I delete on the NT machine seem to be changed to 0kb (effectively deleting them), but remain.
After doing this you are free to play with whatever you like. BTW c:\winnt\repair\SAM._ is a file of the winnt passwd hashmarks. You can import this into a tool such as l0phtcrack and with a little time attain passwds for all accounts on that machine.
Linux is equally vulnerable should the user have access to the actual machine. This is a great flaw in my opinion. My school has circumvented the problem by not allowing the Lab machines to boot off floppies, but users could still physically damage the machines.
I found the address for rrlogin.c
You can email Phil Karn (it's creator) if you'd care to thank him. I did.
In maine. this is Allowed. One may go to the RR webpage and choose advanced access - allowing him to use a RR ID at on any RR modem. Yours might me set to the secure mode and thus requiring your personal modem.
I use RR with linux (Debian 2.2 and RH 6.0) here in Portland, Maine. While they do not support it www.maine.rr.com has a number of cool (but rather old) linux-cable-modem-howto's.
I use RRlogin to authenticate with tas although I'm not sure where it came from (I just have the binary). Has anyone seen a sight with the source? Also, I'd really like to thank the guy who made it and play with the code. (My friend wrote a windows version that is a little slow and may benefit from seeing someone else's ideas)
-matt
Snot and Penis jokes are timeless. You know ya love it...Doesn't eveyone?
agreed. If some of the E crap that I do not need can easily be removed (perhaps modules) I'll be happy. Who really needs the raindrops, wave patterns, etc that .16 has to offer?
.16 (from cvs/snapshot) seems to have a pager and few other differences from .15.
E is beautiful and relatively fast (but by no means as fast at fvwm or windowmaker), but has too many needless features and the development of useful things (pager for one) is too slow.
I wish them both the best of luck, but I'll stick with WM till E is a little better.
How are SuSE, slack, and stampede faster than RedHat? Are they not all optimized for i386? I could see how something like bero-linux (which as I understand is optimized for PPro) or simply downloading source and compiling with i686 optimization would be a little faster.
Is RH really slower? Why? are they not all using the same GNU tools, the same filesystem, and a similiar compiler? Perhaps you are refering to non-custom kernels vs stock kernels?
Here, Here!
Netscape and Mozilla are the opposite of good.
Perhaps we should write an alpha "Slashdotter's" Browser. It could have all kinds of buttons that do not work (like mozilla) and a insta-flame button for the super-lazy. Hopefully it will keep track of my slashdot passwd too. and eat up 90% of my CPU and memory. And it should have a wyswig (sp?) editor that no one needs and it could have lame bookmarks/favorites that come back even after i delete them (just for kicks). Oh, and of course it should segfault just as i stop mindlessly browsing and begin to do something productive.
The KDE browser rocks (but you gotta run kfm and qt) (SIDE NOTE: Anyone know how to disable the desktop icons that kfm creates? I'd really like to just use it as a web-browser/file manager)
Netscape has not become bloated linux software, it was always this bad. I'm using it now on a p2-450, 256 and its horrible. I switched to Navigator (version 4.61) and set it up to launch mutt for mailto's and netscape has not crashed in weeks!! This beats the heck out of the 3 to 4 crashes a day with netscape-communicator 4.61.
*Guilty secret* I really like lynx. what is stopping someone from making a console based browser with some minor graphical capabilites (image rendering/tables). Anyone know how plausible this would be? I could envision it with a GUI like linuxconf has in RH when executed from the console.
Hope this helps
do you have a webpage/howto for vpn. I looked at vpnd but i'm not sure it is what i want. It refers to modems/slip while i am on a 10mb lan. Can anyone offer success stories, etc?
... has a similiar directory structure for their RPMS. Why does this make Debian superior?
Maybe you can help me out with this one:
1. how does one upgrade a debian box if a security issue is found with a package?
2. What exactly does apt-get update actually do (it seems to just change a few gzipped files on my machine representing the directory structure of the debian ftp site) Does ir get packages which have been changed due to security related issues?
3. DOes anyone have a script/howto for making debs. RPMS seem really easy, but the stuff for debs on the debian site seemed a litte too confusing.
4. Has the debian open-source manual been released, yet?
thanks,
That may be a generous comparison though.
The average computer users (Windows/Macintosh) where I'm from (a University in North America) call me for information on how to drag icons to the trash/recycle bin, in fact, I had a 45 minute call with someone who simply wanted to ftp to our local webserver! (These are professional staff/faculty, not students)
This leads me to believe that knowledge of unix/C is a little special and therefore I've the right to flame once and a while. I am not claiming to know everything, but I feel I am more familiar with technology than many people writing online articles criticizing my beloved linux.
BTW- BEos rocks and if Scott Hacker cared to convice the linux community of this he could send us each a free copy for tinkering :) (Like that will ever happen)