Re: my 2 cents

1998-06-30 Thread David B Swann
I am a UNIX advocate, but I would have to agree that UNIX lags behind DOS/W$ applications for the desktop. There are only a limited number of commercial applications available for the desktop, but the lists of supported applications grows each day. You can attempt to get a Windows emulation runn

Re: pwconv w/ more than 2500 users?

1998-06-24 Thread David B Swann
As the password file grows larger, it will take longer for people (especially at the bottom of the file) to login. This is the case for any UNIX system. I would think that it would take longer with a shadow password file, since the login authentication now has to search through both passwd files

Re: Telnetting into

1998-06-22 Thread David B Swann
Try "expect". __ | Bryan Swann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 803/566-0086 803/554-0015 (Fax) | | Eagan McAllister Associates, Inc.| |

Re: ssh behind a firewall!

1998-05-18 Thread David B Swann
I have evaluated TIS version 4.0 running on a UNIX box. There was not a proxy for ssh built-in, but a plug proxy running on the firewall should be able to support ssh. I can't remember ssh's default port, but that should be easy to find. ___