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Welcome, sorry you had to join during a flame fest.  They are long but 
few and usually a good distance apart.

> Personally IMHO, personal attacks shouldn't be tolerated. Life is too 
> short to have grudges, and you'all raise many good points
> worthy of everyones reading and finding the little "truths".

Agreed.

> Point of interest, when I had used Mandrake Linux, I use to offer free 
> shell accounts.
> I have since stopped that practice, after watching one user "own" my box 
> in a matter of minutes.
> 
> What was of interest was his way of hiding his files. In a dir that 
> couldn't be seen using "ls -al"
> He had switched all binaries for running commands like "top" "ls" "w" 
> etc...

So, anyone ever heard of fsdb?  Anyone?  It's the big brother to fsck. 
With it, you can literally hide a directory from all untouched file 
system listing tools.  You can only back into the directory.  That's a 
sweet trick.

<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?fsdb+1M";>http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?fsdb+1M</a>

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey


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