Thanks and my apologies about getting hot behind the collar. I misread you too. Now maybe you can give me some tips before I go out and buy a bunch of books. First, If I were to buy a book or two, what would you suggest? Second, there was a program on one of the other distros that I was experimenting with that made the font of the desktop more readable. Of course I can't remember it. Then it seems that everytime I use firefox I'm going to have to enlarge the fonts. Would opera browser be the same way? Or one of the other browsers? Thanks. John John B Pace wrote:
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 10:36 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
John B Pace wrote:
So, it is like it used to be, Carlos? Really no need for antivirus software? Non-root users still don't have root abilities, so, no, of course not.
Do downloaded files suddenly make themselves executable, without you chmod'ing them?
The security model hasn't changed since 1970, BECAUSE IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE!
Remember, the Unix security model was designed with the presumption that ANY user might accidentally do something utterly stupid, and so the whole system was designed to protect users from each others' stupidity.
Interesting that the windows machines are being protected from themselve. What cave have you been hiding in for the last 15 years?
I assume some distros must be weaker than others? Or why would clamav or antivir (Avira GmbH) been created. To weed out Microsoft viruses.
Sheesh, John, name one Linux virus.
The last outbreak of malware in the *nix community was over 20 years ago...and that was due to buffer overruns (which have since been corrected) on hardware so obsolete that you can't even find in operation any more (VAX-11 and Motorola 680x0 CPUs)
I'm probably sticking my foot in my mouth or worse my head where the sun doesn't bother shining, but I'm really curious as to clamav and antivir. You don't have to answer this if you don't want, Carlos. I can check it out! Thanks! John They're for the purpose of protecting Windows clients from malware-infested Windows viruses.
I can't recall any viruses, malware, but then I've probably only put 90 hours into linux altogether, which is why I introduced myself as an older dummy.
Oh, I see. I thought you meant you used to use Unix way back a long time ago.
What did you mean about being a non-root user.
The system administrators account is user ID 0, and by default, named "root" ... you can change this, but it will cause problems if a program checks the user name rather than the user ID number.
I'm normally no-root except when I need to be in root. I
That's good. Never do anything as root unless you need to. Even software that I grab off of websites, do all of my downloading from my normal user account. I just use the su command to change user ID to root just to install the software, and then end the su session.
see that you just came on board as far as downloaded files. That solution was taken care of a good deal of time ago this morning with some excellent answers. There were no "of course not." That phrase should be left out of conversation about discussing solutions. It sounds like old linux answers by those that think they may have something over the rest of us. I don't and won't put up with that crap. I don't need your
I misunderstood what you were saying in your original post. I thought you mean "old linux user" as someone with experience in this operating system from long ago, not someone who is getting grey hair. My mistake.
preaching with your capitalizing either. In fact, I don't need you disrespect at all, so keep it to yourself because I surely don't care what you say or what others say to my response.
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