February 26th, 2006, 12:20 AM
Yea I think the best way of thinking about that is this:
"UNIX was never designed to stop you from doing stupid things. That would also stop you from doing clever ones.
February 25th, 2006, 11:14 PM
Everyone who's used Unix for more than an hour has wondered what "rm -rf /" does. And as you said it stops you from screwing up. A secure system isn't just firewalled, it's protected from the users...
February 25th, 2006, 10:45 PM
You don't list what type of Unix you have running so it's really hard to say. Most of the times IPTables or whatever firewall you use are good but then you need to think about permissions. And of...