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A question for my readers.

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A professor shares files with his students by placing them in a publicly accessible directory on the Computer Science department’s Linux system. One day he realizes that a file placed there the previous day was left world-writable. He changes the permissions and verifies that the file is identical to his master copy. The next day … Read more

How to have all files in a directory to all default to the parent permissions.

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This command will set all new files in the directory to all default to the permissions set to the parent directory. This is very useful when creating a new directory and you wish to ensure that the files therein have correct permissions. jason@jason-desktop:~$ sudo setfacl -R -d -m o::rwx Documents/ [sudo] password for jason:jason@jason-desktop:~$ sudo … Read more

How to enable the su command to access the root account in Linux Mint 13.

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Do you ever wish that you could enable the su command on Linux Mint 13 or Ubuntu? Well read on and you will learn how to accomplish this. By default the sudo command is used to run a command as the superuser; this command is controlled by the /etc/sudoers. This is what the file looks … Read more

Linux and UNIX security compared to Windows and Apple.

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Linux and UNIX security compared to Windows and Apple Comparing Linux and UNIX security to Windows and Apple. The OSGUI tech show host has posted a video with 6 reasons why Linux sucks, with one of the reasons being that there are many packaging systems instead of just one. But that is the thing with … Read more