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Linux Mint Essentials

Linux Mint Essentials

By : Jay LaCroix
4.2 (10)
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Linux Mint Essentials

Linux Mint Essentials

4.2 (10)
By: Jay LaCroix

Overview of this book

A task-oriented look at Linux Mint, using actual real-world examples to stimulate learning. Each topic is presented in an easy-to-follow order, with hands-on activities to reinforce the content. If you are starting out with Linux from a different platform or are well versed with Linux Mint and want a guide that shows you how to exploit certain functionality, this book is for you. No previous Linux experience is assumed.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Choosing secure passwords

Many believe that Linux is inherently more secure than the other platforms. While there is an endless debate on either side of this argument, no inherent security can save you if you use weak passwords on your system. What it all comes down to is that having a simple password based on a simple dictionary word would be broken by a cracker in just a few minutes, regardless of how secure your kernel is. A longer password with special characters and differing capitalization may be more difficult to type, but it would be harder for someone to guess it by launching a brute-force attack.

One useful tool that checks the strength of your password is the Password Haystacks tool found on the Gibson Research Corporation website. While it is not specific to Mint or even Linux, it's a very useful tool you can use to check the strength of your password. There, you can type in the password you're considering to see how conceivably strong it is against different attack...

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