Lol
>>> selinux@home.com 02/09/02 13:59 PM >>>
On Saturday 09 February 2002 11:19, you wrote:
Just keep on top of security updates and don't run
> as root if you can help it. That would even apply to Slowaris and other
> Unix's.
>
> Brett
I use root only when absolutely mandatory, do security updates as a thrice
weekly religious observance, check MD5 sums and other signatures on
downloaded software and am a member of multiple, geographically separated
LUGS. I am also an extremely sparing user of closed-source software and my
Microsoft box thinks the Linux box is in Houston and only listens for TCP/IP
over port 80; (although it will eventually catch on where the hits on the VNC
server tunneled through SSH are coming from).
Those seem to be parts a - e of the first lesson of Linux / Unix.
Shucks ... that's easy!
If I haven't skipped anything significant, I think I'm ready for lesson two:
... setting up a multifunctional server in a hostile environment using
marginally adequate equipment under a harsh deadline with no additional
funding possible while learning to use SQL databases, the GIMP, HTML, DHTML
and CSS, XML and PHP simultaneously and also researching scriptural material
for next weeks Bible discourse on the topic of "Is there eternal punishment
for the wicked?" and trying to get things ready for the DSL guy to show ...
just in case he keeps his appointment?
I love Linux ... but the learning curve is a bite in the ankle. :-)
I can hardly wait to see what's next ... maybe recovering from multiple
simultaneous rootings during a prolonged backup with only GUI tools and a
pocket knife, while the UPS sends up smoke signals and I have just been
spotted by my opponent in Death Match a the monitor went blank (clicking
away without visual reference in a GUI ... now THAT takes a REAL sysad!).
You admins are my heros!
Bill
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