[CoLoCo] UBUNTU SURVIVAL : SAVE THY SELF

[TJ Heaney]

A pseudo-sudo disclaimer?

Like if I do:

$sudo rm -rf /

it would respond with something like:

"Warning, the 'rm' command is designed to remove any and all files within a
designated directory, please enter your password to continue, or type "exit"
to cancel"

That sounds like a good idea.

On Nov 28, 2007 8:31 PM, Brett Trigg <brett_trigg at comcast.net> wrote:

>  What about some sort of "sudo tutorial" built into Ubuntu?
> Maybe something along the lines of when a user first tries to sudo, it
> gives them a warning that they have to read (indicated by entering their
> password at the end or something) that gives them a brief rundown of stuff
> like this.
> Maybe something like that, along with the regex script TJ is putting
> together, would provide enough education.
> Which, I think, is the primary problem regardless of OS.  Lack of
> education causes problems.
>
>
> John Edwards wrote:
>
> Conspiracy is not necessary these days.  This crap has been going on as
> long as I can remember.  As long as there is a popular OS, the script
> kiddies will find ways of making people who don't know better, compromise or
> destroy their systems.
>
> I recall getting an email from someone off of a Usenet posting I did about
> a spyware infestation way back in Win98 days that insisted that if I told
> Win98 to delete the "C:\windows" directory, the system would protect itself
> and not allow any required files to be deleted, but it would remove any
> files that shouldn't be there, thus eliminating the spyware.  Of course, I
> knew better, but how many people did this ass take in with that line?
>
> The only problem I see with these postings, is that the bad guys will turn
> to PM's next.  Just yesterday, I received a PM on another forum, linking me
> to a "really cool hack for MMO's.  It was suppose to allow you to hack the
> stats of your MMO characters, but it seemed to be just a capcha (sp?) hack
> so the writer could create new forum logins... (someone on the board had
> opened it up in a XP Virtual machine to see).
>
> If the script works, it would be a great deal of help in this matter.
> PM's aren't seen by anybody but the reader as a general rule.
>
>
>
> John Edwards
>
>
>
> On Nov 28, 2007 8:12 AM, Michael TheZorch Haney < thezorch at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >  phillip tribble wrote:
> > > "I'd like to take a moment of your time to discuss a recent disturbing
> > > trend the staff has been noticing on the forums, and also take this as
> > > an opportunity to raise awareness of this situation through
> > > education." - tfa
> > >
> > > http://ubuntuforums.org/announcement.php?a=54
> >
> > You know its pretty sad that these people have to try to sabotage
> > people's computers because they use Ubuntu instead of Windows or some
> > other OS.  I'm no hysterical conspiracy theorist, but this is something
> > I could easily see Steve Balmer doing.  Considering the kind of
> > unethical, school yard crap I've seen him pull before I wouldn't be
> > surprised at all if he was behind this.
> >
> >
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