How safe is running from hard drive?

For discussions about security.
Message
Author
musher0
Posts: 14629
Joined: Mon 05 Jan 2009, 00:54
Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada

#46 Post by musher0 »

@Barkin

You suggested to turn off javascript. Well, if I do, I can't access my webmail account
from my opera browser. Any ideas about how to go around this?

Thanks in advance.

musher0
musher0
~~~~~~~~~~
"You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen)

musher0
Posts: 14629
Joined: Mon 05 Jan 2009, 00:54
Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada

#47 Post by musher0 »

Hi!

@ all

I've been studying the man for chmod and came up with the following, as a refinement
of my previous post on the subject. Any ideas as to how to improve this little script are welcome. (Since this is not exactly intuitive...)

Code: Select all

# Exercise 1)
# Specify user only permissions for a folder named "Documents" in /root.

# Step 1
chmod -v -R uga-rwx /root/Document # Remove all rights to anyone for the folder and all the files in it, in verbose mode.
# Step 2
chmod -v -R u+rw /root/Document # Give back read and write rights to the user only for the folder and all files in it, in verbose mode.
# Step 3
chmod -v u=rwx /root/Documents # Give back search rights to the user only for the folder, in verbose mode.
####
# Exercise 2)
# Specify user only permissions for all folders in /root.

# Step 1
chmod -v -R uga-rwx /root # Remove all rights to anyone for the folder and all the files in it, in verbose mode.
# Step 2
chmod -v -R u+rwx /root # Give back read, write, and search or execute rights to the user only for the root folder and all files in it, in verbose mode.
(Corrected Jan 27, 2014: last line in the code above should have read /root, not /root/Documents. Sorry about that.)

Thanks in advance.

musher0
Last edited by musher0 on Mon 27 Jan 2014, 17:28, edited 1 time in total.
musher0
~~~~~~~~~~
"You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen)

version2013
Posts: 503
Joined: Mon 09 Sep 2013, 00:00
Location: Florida, USA
Contact:

#48 Post by version2013 »

musher0 wrote:@Barkin

You suggested to turn off javascript. Well, if I do, I can't access my webmail account
from my opera browser. Any ideas about how to go around this?

Thanks in advance.

musher0
I use Seamonkey with addon "NoScript".
I put sites I allow javascript to run in the "NoScript" whitelist.

It appears Opera has several addons with similar capabilities, e.g. Script Defender.

User avatar
Barkin
Posts: 803
Joined: Fri 12 Aug 2011, 04:55

#49 Post by Barkin »

version2013 wrote:
musher0 wrote:@Barkin

You suggested to turn off javascript. Well, if I do, I can't access my webmail account
from my opera browser. Any ideas about how to go around this?

Thanks in advance.

musher0
I use ... addon "NoScript". I put sites I allow javascript to run in the "NoScript" whitelist.
Ditto

There seem to be alternatives to NoScript for Opera , which have a whitelist system, (only websites on the whitelist are permitted to use JavaScript FlashPlayer JavaApplets etc), but I've never tried these alternatives to NoScript.
Last edited by Barkin on Mon 27 Jan 2014, 05:06, edited 5 times in total.

User avatar
Barkin
Posts: 803
Joined: Fri 12 Aug 2011, 04:55

#50 Post by Barkin »

musher0 wrote:But why would I want to spy on the keys I myself type... ? .
The suggested uses were spying on the other members of the household.

However Keylogger could be used ethically : imagine you've filled in an on-line form only for something to go wrong,
you can retrieve a copy of what you've typed from the keylogger rather than type-in all the data again.

User avatar
mikeb
Posts: 11297
Joined: Thu 23 Nov 2006, 13:56

#51 Post by mikeb »

I want a keylogger so I can analyse how my horrendous typos keep happening. Like where did the z key come in when I should have pressed p

ypurs zatiently

mike

musher0
Posts: 14629
Joined: Mon 05 Jan 2009, 00:54
Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada

#52 Post by musher0 »

mikeb wrote:I want a keylogger so I can analyse how my horrendous typos keep happening. Like where did the z key come in when I should have pressed p

ypurs zatiently

mike
Jello, mikeb :)

Maybe a typing tutor would do a better job of it? Here's a short list:
http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20100 ... utors.html

Hust a thought! :)

musher0
musher0
~~~~~~~~~~
"You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen)

Post Reply