Here are some random tips to get you started on your Unix account. The first tip is permissions. When you logon to your root account (/home/username), you want to make sure you directories are protected. The generic permission settings have been changed since I came to Ryerson, back then you could see anyone's account files if you switched directories. So make sure your directories are set to 711 and your files are 644. For directories the command would be " chmod 711 * " and files would be " chmod 644 *.* ", without the " 's of course!

Another geeky thing to do is to set your plan and project. If you finger someone (get your mind out of the gutter), say " finger sadeghian ", you can see their account info, when they last logged in, last read their mail, plan etc... etc... To set your plan, type " pico .plan " and write whatever you want. Save that (Ctrl-X) and then finger yourself. You now have a plan. Do the same with " pico .project " and you have a project. Gay huh?

If you want to steal other peoples files, its hard. If you want to screw up someone else's files, its hard. From early experience, when you modify someone's files, you can use a simple " ls -l " command and see who last modified it. And that can equal to bad news. There is a way to see who screwed up and left their directories wide open. The n00b way to do it is, go to /home/ and do an ls on each letter of the alphabet. For example, " ls a* ". If someone left their directory open, you'll see their file list pop up. The rest will show you forbidden. There's another way to do this, but I'll let you figure it out!

Other features of unix are pine, the mail system. Just type in " pine " and the rest is yours to discover. Another command is " who " which shows you who's online on the server at that time. There are of course hundreds of commands you can use, figure them out and you'll be able to find some exploits for the scs server system.

In terms of the XP desktop, your options are limited. You cant really modify your desktop background or anything else for that matter. Some key features that will come in handy, if you dont know already, are locking your desktop, which you hold the Windows Logo key and " L " together. One word of advice, dont mess around with net sends if you dont know how to use them!! I've had my account suspended once for a net send gone horribly horribly horribly wrong. Let just say a message destined to a friend ended up being sent all over the scs servers. Anytime anyone logged on to the system, including the admins and the professors, they would have seen my message. It still makes me laugh to this day! Whats even funnier is I did it again 1 year later, except on someone else's account :-D. Moral of the story, dont leave your computer unattended. The end.

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