Update On WorkSpot 28
"Dear members of the Slashdot community:
We at Workspot want to thank everyone who has take the time to check out our service (www.workspot.com). We have been operating under the radar for the last year, with lots of enthusiastic comments from those who have found out about us. We have had lots of suggestions about how to optimize our service, which we are incorporating into our upcoming release. We are also implementing a significant upgrade to our architecture and capacity to provide more users with continued access.
We want to make sure everyone understands that we are in early beta with an imminent upgrade to be released soon. Therefore, we ask you to please be patient with us as we register the thousands of users that have come to our door this week. For more information and our initial response to questions raised by the community go to this Slashdot response.
Note,we will post a technical FAQ later this month and will continue to respond to technical issues raised by the community. We are here to serve Linux!"
Re:First ontopic post? Informative even? (Score:1)
I don't think these "free account" places can possibly last. All the old "free account" of any sort usually ends up failing miserably sooner or later. With a limited supply (of servers) and a near infinite demand (of lamers), and no revenue generator that I've heard of yet, this sounds like a real loser.
So I can buy stock in it, and become a millionaire, right?
I haven't been posting on slashdot that much lately. Is this crap normal now? 17/83? Come on, people!
First Post Above Score:1, yeah!
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Re:There's a BIG problem with WorkSpot (Score:1)
Re:"Invalid e-mail address"? (Score:1)
Re:Decoy method of security? (Score:1)
First ontopic post? Informative even? (Score:1)
Re:Still don't have my account (Score:1)
Re:"Invalid e-mail address"? (Score:1)
Try again later...
Gerv
Still don't have my account (Score:1)
Re:First ontopic post? Informative even? (Score:1)
It's nice ... (Score:1)
Suggestion for Workspot (Score:1)
"huhuhuhh, go away. we're like closed or something"
Re:Decoy method of security? (Score:1)
Really, really evil gag:
Or, the ultimate way to secure a system (a friend of mine actually DID this): chmod every file so that nothing can read or write to it. Of course, you then can't log in, but that's a small price to pay for the ultimate in security, right? ;-)
-RickHunter
Re:First ontopic post? Informative even? (Score:1)
My thoughts on WorkSpot (Score:1)
The most useful thing I found was the fact that they gave free webspace with support for CGI's.
Re:It's nice ... (Score:1)
Account at workspot (Score:1)
Couple things need fixing but for a beta seems to be running nice. There is no php support...sigh... also having mysql on there would be nice if you wanted to use a database. And the one terrable thing...SameGame the spinny stones wouldn't work. I got so excited that i would be able to play it at work.
But great job to those at workspot
Re:First ontopic post? Informative even? (Score:1)
Re:First ontopic post? Informative even? (Score:1)
Check it out! My Comment #77 comment shows up on this page with a threshold of 2!!!!
Anyways, this thread used to filled with comments of scores 1 and 0. Until you came along. Get your karma whoring ass out of here. We don't need your kind in this thread.
And wasting a score of 2 on such a lame ass reply. If I had mod access right now, you'd be sitting at (1: overrated).
Gawd has slashdot ever gone down hill. Thanks timothy and emmett (I wonder if there the same person? They both spell their names without capitals...).
Oh well, off to download more pr0n.
Pr0n K1ng
cool, but no disk space! (Score:1)
There's a BIG problem with WorkSpot (Score:2)
How do we know this? Let's just say that someone applied for the username "root". And it went through.
Now, I'm sure you can see why it is that they haven't been responding as of late.
--AC to protect myself
Re:Decoy method of security? (Score:2)
I've heard of machines with several accounts with uid 0, but that was machines used for Unix training - When the student messed up the r00t account, there was still a way to get in for the instructor.
Actually, changing the name of the administrator-account is recommended practice on NT, from what I've heard...
"Invalid e-mail address"? (Score:2)
Re:There's a BIG problem with WorkSpot (Score:2)
Nope, still nothing special about the name "root". It's a character string, nothing more, nothing less. The problem, though, is that Unix searched through the password file line by line and stops when it reaches the name it is looking for. So, "passwd root" will do what you think it will if the admin hasn't changed the name associated with UID 0. Many, if not most, good sysadmins change the superuser's name.
By the way, even Microsoft recommends, as part of the standard "NT hardening", changing the name of the Administrator and Guest accounts.
But, just as an aside, if you use a system with shadow passwords (good idea) and you want to change the name of the root user, be sure to do it in both /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow (or run /usr/sbin/pwunconv first) before you log out as root, or you'll in a world of hurt (have your installation media close by if you do this!). Experience talking here...
darren
Cthulhu for President! [cthulhu.org]
Re:Decoy method of security? (Score:3)
Actually, there're probably a few poorly written scripts that depend on the username, but in general, that should work...
Heh, makes me wonder why more people don't do it - "Hey! I rooted this box, but I can't rm -rf
"If ignorance is bliss, may I never be happy.
Decoy method of security? (Score:3)
So, does that mean I could assign root a different UID, and give a different username UID 0? Ya know, sorta set-up a "dummy root", as a security measure? Or is this not a feasible task? i.e., would this account function fully as root, or do some tasks expect the username "root"?
--Ricky
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My mommy told me never to take my sig out in public.
Re:There's a BIG problem with WorkSpot (Score:4)
Are you sure that's the only thing that's special? I suspect that if that script ran "passwd root", the effects would qualify as "special".
VNC is the jewel hidden in this story (Score:4)
Workspot is good for people to tryout/use Linux
I run VNC on my home DSL connected Linux PC. To take care of dynamic IP addresses on my DSL connection i use the superb DNS service from DHS [dhs.org], these guys are great!
Now, where ever i am, using VNC-SSH-DHS combo i can easily and securely reach my home Linux desktop with it's GB's of space and all the sw/code/tools that i have installed.
btw, a great SSH client for Windows without any crypto restrictions is TTSSH [zip.com.au].
i have reached Nirvana (atleast for some time
My call.. (Score:5)
As a student in an NT school, i'll often set IE to full screen and code away on some perl scripts.
The coolest thing about workspot is the fact that it offers the whole free storage thing too. Now some of you may think this is old news (X drive [xdrive.com], etc), but to all the geeks out there, you can access this storage space via a Palm VII app! Basically, Its a wireless storage space like that.
And you also get free web hosting @ http://www.workspot.net/~username. With CGI! Mmmmm...
O ya, and the KDE kiks ass too. But don't try to run it in Netscape/MacOS. *crash*.
The only constraint has been bandwidth. The coolness loses its touch when the menu's are jerkin around on a 56k.
All in all, a perfect OS gateway for those with network access to the internet.