Hello,

Two things which puzzled me recently:

1) I created a new user without initially receiving any warnigs, but the day after, there 
was  a warning in the daily security report I get by email. It was about the fact that the 
username is longer than 8 characters. Is this to be taken serious? I thought that nowadays 
the limitation of usernames to 8 chars is history.

2) All scripts in /etc/rc.d have 555 permissions and /etc and /rc.d have 755 permissions. 
Thus any user can at least try to execute scripts from /etc/rc.d. I thought that this 
scripts are supposed to be run only by root.

Best regards,

Serban Udrea