Re: learning to code - suggestions needed

2006-01-04 Thread Luís Bruno
Edd Barrett wrote: I'm taking a university degree that teaches unix system programming in solaris in the second year. FWIW, here we scratch the surface too... But I was glad I read the knf manpage and some code reviews on this list. The c.l.c FAQ was also a very good resource. On a

Re: learning to code - suggestions needed

2006-01-04 Thread Luís Bruno
Kim Onnel wrote: I just dont understand what ur saying Damn, sorry about that. - FWIW means for what (little) it's worth :-) - knf is a manpage; actually, I think it's called style in section 9. - c.l.c. is an usenet group; the comp.lang.c FAQ has lots of tips and tricks which I think are

Re: disk encryption on login

2005-12-05 Thread Luís Bruno
Alexander Farber wrote: I have one suggestion: if a user logs in and the path to home dir in the /etc/passwd is actually pointing to a file, then it is encrypted Ok, maybe not so excellent, because where that would be mounted :-/ In the parent directory: /home/lbruno/image.vnd -

Re: Telnet daemon retired in 3.8 ?

2005-11-08 Thread Luís Bruno
Shawn K. Quinn wrote: only telnet connections from networks where you know for sure nobody with root access will try to hijack or eavesdrop on connections (such as a LAN where either you are the sole admin or you know and trust the other admins). And where other people can't connect their own