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On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 05:34:02PM +0530, Philip S Tellis wrote:
> Sometime Today, Vicky assembled some asciibets to say:
>
> > > 1. Fix your line length. Currently, your entire paragraph comes on a
> > > single line.
> > In vi how do i do wrap to next line after a fixed number of chars per line???
>
> :set wm=8
> will set the right margin to 8 characters (in vim). An EOL will be
> inserted at this position (word boundaries are maintained)
>
> > > 2. Don't log in as root. It is dangerous. Create a separate user for
> > > yourself, and work as that user only.
> >
> > Its cool I do Unix Security Consultation and a lot of TCP/IP
> > programming I find it quicker to work as root since my programms need
> > to bind to the privi. ports and suid'ing them I find that kinda
> > triersome and unsecure. My filesystem is already encrypted using a
> > loopback device and blowfish so I dont have to worry aboutmuch.
>
> :) <smiles knowingly to himself> How many have said the same thing
> before...
>
> It's not to protect your system from others, but to protect it from
> yourself. It's the difference between running 'rm -fr *' and 'rm -f r*'
> as root and as a non root user. Read through the archives of this group,
> you'll find several mentions of 'logging in as root' there have been
> several threads on this topic on this and other lists, as well as on
> comp.os.linux.*
handly root on linux is like dos or windows 9x in single user mode and
wipeing your system clean with and 'rm' is like running 'format c: /q'
or "deltree' on it by mistake and it'll take a hell or a person do a
mistake like that. and talking about the several threads on usenet we shoulnt
end up starting one on this topic here. :) Thanks for the advice anyway and talking
about it I do have another less priv. login which I use for the really dangerous stuff
like I had got my hands on this Linux Virus by VLAD and I use the login to test it and
stuff
>
> Philip
>
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>
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