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- From: rchen@walrus.mvhs.edu (Rodney Chen)
- Subject: Questions about Network
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.063654.29546@news.arc.nasa.gov>
- Sender: usenet@news.arc.nasa.gov
- Organization: Monte Vista High School, Cupertino, California
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 06:36:54 GMT
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- Okay, I am trying to do some major renovations of the site we have at my
- high school, and I need to have some questions answered. I'm pretty much
- still a newbie (and 17 years old), and I am asking for anyone who can help
- me. This is part of a NASA project which is finding how k-12 students and
- teachers can work with the resources on the Internet. If anyone has some
- extra time to hear some of my questions out, I appreciate telling me so.
- Thanks in advance, and I would appreciate my replies via e-mail.
-
- 1) Any good ftp sites I can go to find scripts to restrict commands for a
- user (say, like they can use mail only, and nothing else), checking
- passwords during a change (so a non-alphanumeric character is between a
- 6-8 character password), adding user accounts, etc? Mailing them is fine
- too.
-
- 2) Any ftp sites on great Unix utilites which would take the level of
- expertise needed to bypass the RTFM messages I have to send? Say, like
- instead of mail, I could replace it with elm, but I don't know any good
- sites to start looking.
-
- 3) Our talk seems to be outdated. We're running a Sun 3/60 with SunOS
- 4.1.1 I think, and many people can page me for chatting, but we have
- different protocols, it says. I heard there's an ntalk out there, and how
- can I obtain this?
-
- 4) I would like to add a hard drive to the system, as well as a modem.
- (We currently access it over the school network or dial into an auxillary
- site to telnet over). However, when we first received this computer, it
- was fairly outdated and crippled (took 2 months to fix mail/readnews,
- etc.), and I believe we don't have system configuration files either. I
- also hear you can dump your sysconfig out of the kernel, so I think that's
- the easiest. And do I need to reconfig this and recompile the kernel, or
- is it as simple as creating a device file and editing a gettytab or
- something?
-
- 5) I would like to know if there is an updated way to find addresses.
- Currently we have whois setup as an ARPA address, where can I go to revise
- this?
-
- Again, thanks in advance. It seems taking an Introductory Unix SysAdmin
- course didn't help much, eh?
-
- Rodney Chen
- System Administrator of walrus.mvhs.edu
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- Rodney Chen Head Student Coordinator
- rchen@walrus.mvhs.edu NASA/NREN High School Project
- rchen@spectrx.saigon.com Monta Vista High School
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