On 14/02/2013 16:00, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:07 AM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I keep hearing this "arcane" - even the author of xkcd commented about
not remembering tar flags... and yet, 80%-90% of them are trivially
obvious
to me - -r (or -R) for recursion, -f for file. For configuration, such as
firewalls, there's always copy an existing line and edit, then do a
syntax check.
The 'arcane' issue isn't so much per-process as it is knowing which
program does what and how or if they interact in a way that affects
your upper-level task. For example, I don't think it is very obvious
what you have to do for common things like giving a dhcp address with
an associated dns name to a specific device. Or maybe setting up a
group of users with some special file system access, samba shares, web
logins with group access for several different web apps, and an email
True - but that's getting into nontrivial tasks, if you're doing it for
more than your own machine at home. There are security issues, and
organization policies, etc.
Windows lures us into a false sense of security anyway:
"Under Windows you just run the security & policy program, click next,
next, finish and 'hey' you're done, all secure...".
At least when you have to think about something you can get more real
confidence that you've done it right!!
--
Regards,
Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS
NetSecSpec Ltd
+44 (0) 7983 877438
http://www.coochey.net
http://www.netsecspec.co.uk
giles@xxxxxxxxxxx
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