Its where you password hashes (stored versions of passwords) live these days./etc/passwd just stores user properties, but not the password hashes. It did once (hence the name), but since everyone on a Unix box can read the passwd file (so users can find each others home directories, for example) they could read the hashes too. With enough time and computing power, they could work out what the typed-in password were from the hashes.
If we could rename/etc/passwd/etc/users, and/etc/shadow/etc/passhashes, that'd be nice.
The rest of your post has already been responded to elsewhere, but...
Windows has shipped with a C sharp compiler installed by default for the last three years.
Also, the next version of Windows has a better shell than Unix, as it seperates content from presentation, making things more obout objects than text. You can downlaod a working beta of this shell now if you like.
The main diference I find between Linux is:
* Execute permission is turned off by default for new files in Linux, making life harder for worms.
* Packaging is more popular on Linux (eliminating the need to download and run said executables). Verification rocks too.
* Less 'brick-wall' troubleshooting (you can get access to the source, and there's better diagnostic tools out of hte box for Linux. Note I didn't say these weren't available for Windows.
* No loss of data when you save to XML with Openoffice, versus Office 2003 (where the native file format will lose data when saved to XML).
* its a fuckload easier to interoperate with something that's not proprietary.
You can have everyone log on with the same user; use autologon for simplicity. Use the account property that prevents the user from changing the password.
I disagree. Accounts exists so that people are accountable for what happens under them. If someone breaks out of your environment or tries to, you'll have a better chance of finding out who did it with one-account per person.
You can eliminate 95% of these vaunerabilities by simply *not running without a firewall* and *not running unneeded services* which is (GASP) something you'd do on Linux as well. Linux is just as vaunerable if it's sitting open and unprotected on a network with 500 services running as root. Would you do that? No. So why do you do it with a Windows box?
Do most modern Linux dstributions install few network services by default, then firewall these ports off by default? Does Windows, pre SP2?
despite that Moore has admitted that it is not all true.
Er, no. He hasn't admitted that. Saying something is satirical is pretty far from saying its a lie. An audience older that eight should be able to work out that suggeting bowling was responsible for Columbine was satire. That doesn't change that it's likely not liberal gun laws, media violence, or Marilyn Manson that caused the children to start shooting their classmates.
You can't install Windows XP anymore. The time taken to download updates is greater than the timn taken for the 14 ports open in Win2K3 by default to be used to break into your machine.
Red Hat and Fedora firewall by default and have for about five years now. Debian installs are done from the new and hence include security updates out of the box.
Architects don't build. They design. And yes, the course is about designing structures - directory structures, clustering systems, logical security domains, etc.
If Fedora actually did that. But it doesn't modify your Windows XP partition of lose any data at all.
If you tell it to, it writes out the partition table in a format that's valid, but not recognised by Windows XP. To fix it, reboot into Linux and change the format back with sfdisk. Problem solved.
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You sure will.
Fedora is an RPM based distro. Fedora's default desktop is GNOME. Fedora's GNOME does not have a default file association for *.rpm files. DUMB
Yes it does - redhat-install-packages in FC1, system-install-packages in FC2.
I agree with the rest of your points though.
Cheers,
Mike
Its the fairest review of the three I've seen _ I'm a Fedora fan, yet I can understand what they liked about Suse and Mandrake.
One thing the reviewer missed about KDE in Fedora - Konqueror is right in the root of the KDE menu. Just click 'Home dir'.
Its where you password hashes (stored versions of passwords) live these days. /etc/passwd just stores user properties, but not the password hashes. It did once (hence the name), but since everyone on a Unix box can read the passwd file (so users can find each others home directories, for example) they could read the hashes too. With enough time and computing power, they could work out what the typed-in password were from the hashes.
/etc/passwd /etc/users, and /etc/shadow /etc/passhashes, that'd be nice.
If we could rename
But I think that wouldn't be in yor password file, as it wouldn't be hashed right.
Better try
echo goatse | passwd --stdin
on your test VM box.
Dude, you need some more info to back up your sig - it should be a link somewhere.
Christ.
I'm a contractor for Red Hat. Before that I worked for a Linux / Unix consulting company for five years. I use Linux exclusively on my hardware.
I make a post pointing out some good and badthings in Windows vs Linux, and its a troll? What a lame moderation. if you disagree, then reply.
Fuck off.
The rest of your post has already been responded to elsewhere, but...
Windows has shipped with a C sharp compiler installed by default for the last three years.
Also, the next version of Windows has a better shell than Unix, as it seperates content from presentation, making things more obout objects than text. You can downlaod a working beta of this shell now if you like.
The main diference I find between Linux is:
* Execute permission is turned off by default for new files in Linux, making life harder for worms.
* Packaging is more popular on Linux (eliminating the need to download and run said executables). Verification rocks too.
* Less 'brick-wall' troubleshooting (you can get access to the source, and there's better diagnostic tools out of hte box for Linux. Note I didn't say these weren't available for Windows.
* No loss of data when you save to XML with Openoffice, versus Office 2003 (where the native file format will lose data when saved to XML).
* its a fuckload easier to interoperate with something that's not proprietary.
Results 1-15 containing "wikipedia"...
hmmm, it didnt seem to find any results for "microsoft sucks", despite the fact www.microsoftsucks.com exists...
It did for me
You can have everyone log on with the same user; use autologon for simplicity. Use the account property that prevents the user from changing the password.
I disagree. Accounts exists so that people are accountable for what happens under them. If someone breaks out of your environment or tries to, you'll have a better chance of finding out who did it with one-account per person.
You can eliminate 95% of these vaunerabilities by simply *not running without a firewall* and *not running unneeded services* which is (GASP) something you'd do on Linux as well. Linux is just as vaunerable if it's sitting open and unprotected on a network with 500 services running as root. Would you do that? No. So why do you do it with a Windows box?
Do most modern Linux dstributions install few network services by default, then firewall these ports off by default? Does Windows, pre SP2?
despite that Moore has admitted that it is not all true.
Er, no. He hasn't admitted that. Saying something is satirical is pretty far from saying its a lie. An audience older that eight should be able to work out that suggeting bowling was responsible for Columbine was satire. That doesn't change that it's likely not liberal gun laws, media violence, or Marilyn Manson that caused the children to start shooting their classmates.
One practical comparison
You can't install Windows XP anymore. The time taken to download updates is greater than the timn taken for the 14 ports open in Win2K3 by default to be used to break into your machine.
Red Hat and Fedora firewall by default and have for about five years now. Debian installs are done from the new and hence include security updates out of the box.
Too many tech people will read 'WW proxy' as 'WWW proxy'. They should avoid that acronym, it makes everything quite hard to understand.
SSH compression is 12:1
NX compression is 60:1
Do you build structures out of RedHat?
:^)
Architects don't build. They design. And yes, the course is about designing structures - directory structures, clustering systems, logical security domains, etc.
And Red Hat is two words. So There
If Fedora actually did that. But it doesn't modify your Windows XP partition of lose any data at all.
If you tell it to, it writes out the partition table in a format that's valid, but not recognised by Windows XP. To fix it, reboot into Linux and change the format back with sfdisk. Problem solved.
My Commments is may not to make sense, because I must use Babelfish for read and posts slashdot and.
You mean to say:
"My comments may not make sense, because I use must use Babelfish for reading and posting on Slashdot asshat."
Indeed. Hell, I can't even remember what happened on November 9.
Actually it would. Project is now a supported application for Crossover.
This still doesn't fix the problem of games under linux, unless someone's managed to port DirectX 9
WineX implements DirectX on Linux. Go play some Far Cry.
hardware-accelerated drivers for the major graphics cards...
Like NVIDIA's Linux drivers, which are mainly the same code as their Windows drivers?
Not sure whether ATI's binary drivers are ported or written from scratch.
From their legal info:
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Don't know how to use gconf? Then you shouldn't change the way Nautilitus works, I presume.
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Amounts to Don't know how to use GConf? Then Gnome's not going to let you revert to your preferred method that it changed without asking your first.
Or better yet:
Don't know how to use GConf? Then fuck off, dear user.
Seriously, it's that rude.