Comments from a "Newbie" at Linux (Chuck Lingo - visitor at Gatti's) If the Corel distribution had included a driver for the built-in Winmodem in my laptop, I could easily have provided the same access to RAW SOCKETS as Win-XP is going to provide. I recently installed Corel Linux on my Acer Laptop. Last night Dustin kindly moved my Star Office from ROOT to a non-ROOT directory for me. It wasn't until after installation and installing SO as ROOT that I realized that I should have installed as USER rather than ROOT. I knew that there had to be an easy way to do this move, but I couldn't find it. Nor could I find a way to do it in KDE. This could have been prevented if there was on the CD a "readme" that clearly. but briefly, explained the arrangement of the Linux file system and where things should be placed and WHY. The WHY at this point should be short and non technical, just enough information to prevent big mistakes, like installing everything as ROOT. I expect this problem to increase as more beginners (with Linux) like me buy, are given, or download distributions. We beginners are usually coming from other systems that are much more insecure. We may have decided to try Linux because we have heard that it is a much more securable system, but we are usually coming from a system where almost everything was done as what would be the SUPERUSER in Linux. We try to use past experience and that past experience guides us incorrectly. In retrospect, I may have succeeded a long time ago with a Linux installation if I had known the actual drive size that I needed for what would be installed and had had better information about directory structure. Is there any way that BRLUG could influence the producers of distributions to include something like this? Chuck <p><p><p><p>Dustin Puryear wrote: <em>> Well, geez. Name one commercial system that has ever actually done <em>> security right. ;-) <em>> <em>> Regards, Dustin <em>> <em>> John Hebert wrote: <em>> <em>> > --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <em>> > <em>> >>Hmm. Is this about the raw socket deal with Windows <em>> >>XP? Raw sockets have <em>> >>been available in the UNIX world for a while, so I <em>> >>guess that means UNIX <em>> >>vendors are no better? <em>> >> <em>> > <em>> >>From my understanding of Gibson's writings, he says <em>> > that raw sockets are a problem in Windows XP because <em>> > most people use M$ Windows operating systems <em>> > (well, duh) AND M$ doesn't seem to have its act <em>> > together when it comes to network security (hmmm, <em>> > he's got a point). So, distributing M$ Windows XP <em>> > with raw sockets for home users who don't properly <em>> > secure their machines will only give DDOS script <em>> > kiddies more platforms to attack from. <em>> > <em>> > :P <em>> > <em>> > John <em>> > <em>> > __________________________________________________ <em>> > Do You Yahoo!? <em>> > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail <em>> > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ <em>> > ================================================ <em>> > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group <em>> > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. <em>> > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change <em>> > your subscription information. <em>> > ================================================ <em>> > <em>> > . <em>> > <em>> > <em>> <em>> -- <em>> Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <em>> http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear <em>> In the beginning the Universe was created. <em>> This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams <em>> <em>> ================================================ <em>> BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group <em>> Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. <em>> Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change <em>> your subscription information. <em>> ================================================ ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================ <!-- body="end" --> <hr noshade> <ul> <li><strong>Next message:</strong> John Hebert: "LSB was Re: [brluglist] Fw: Steve Gibson's July/2001 News from GRC.COM ..." <li><strong>Previous message:</strong> Dustin Puryear: "Re: [brluglist] Fw: Steve Gibson's July/2001 News from GRC.COM ..." <li><strong>In reply to:</strong> Dustin Puryear: "Re: [brluglist] Fw: Steve Gibson's July/2001 News from GRC.COM ..." <li><strong>Next in thread:</strong> John Hebert: "LSB was Re: [brluglist] Fw: Steve Gibson's July/2001 News from GRC.COM ..." <li><strong>Reply:</strong> John Hebert: "LSB was Re: [brluglist] Fw: Steve Gibson's July/2001 News from GRC.COM ..." <li><strong>Messages sorted by:</strong> [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ] </ul> <hr noshade>
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