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Congratulations Mike Lewis on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
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SysAdmin "Attitude".... Is There Such a Thing?
There are many good points here. Before I add my 2 cents worth let me tell you about my self. I have over 15 years in the sys admin world. I have been admin on IBM and Honeywell mainframes (ancient history). I have spent the last 12 years supporting HP and SUN systems. I move just over a month...- billalger
- Post #18
- Forum: Security, hacker detection & forensics
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Why not use a colon (:) in a password?
One item to remember is that some scripts use : as the delimiter in checking passwd fields. I am not sure if the : encripts or not. Example: cat /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f3 grabs the 3rd field. If you use a : does it encript? I do know that some 3rd party software such as Etrust and Kerberos...- billalger
- Post #4
- Forum: Security, hacker detection & forensics
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Can not find command
You may want to look at your path statements in your .profile. You may also want to look at /usr/local/environment and /usr/local/environment.site. Here are the basic entries for paths: /usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin/local:/var/yp:/usr/bin/X11:- billalger
- Post #8
- Forum: General UNIX discussion
