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• UNIX Trix For those of you in the reseller business, here is a helpful tip that will save your support staff a few hours of precious time.
  Before you send your next machine out to an untrained client, change the permissions on /etc/passwd to 666 and make sure there is a copy somewhere on the disk....
• panic: no super user password entry.
• eal user n. 1. A commercial user. One who is paying real money for his computer usage.
  2. A non-hacker. Someone using the system for an explicit purpose (a research project, a course, etc....
• eal user: n. 1. A commercial user. One who is paying *real* money for his computer usage.
  2. A non-hacker. Someone using the system for an explicit purpose (a research project, a course, etc....
• ecurity through obscurity (alt. `security by obscurity') A term applied by hackers to most OS vendors' favorite way of coping with security holes -- namely
  ignoring them, documenting neither any known holes nor the underlying security algorithms, trusting that nobody will find out about them and that people who do find out about them won't exploit them....
• What's tiny and yellow and very, very, dangerous? A canary with the super-user password.
• Press Release -- For Immediate Release Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA .
  ..Virtually all version of Linux (and Unix) contain a security hole that allows unauthorized users to gain complete control over the machine....
• Quote #404 My devil's dictionary definition for an Intelligent Agent is a query program with a user interface that is so obscure that you must anthropomorphize it in order to account for its behavior.
  -- Jaron Lanier [in his [4]Karma Vertigo essay] ( One can extend this quip to any kind of AI....
• disusered adj. [Usenet] Said of a person whose account on a computer has been removed, esp.
  for cause rather than through normal attrition....