[ale] OT: What the hell is XSS in Comcast land?

Tue Aug 13 10:09:16 EDT 2013

That curl line won’t get you very far on a Javascript login page.   I’d dearly love to find something that would because it would make setting up Nagios web page monitors so much easier.

Yes I know:  “Don’t use Javascript!”
Easier said by admins that think the tail wags the dog than actually getting an organization to do especially if they’re dependent on Ow-racle products.

From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim Kinney
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 9:47 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: What the hell is XSS in Comcast land?

point made on wget/curl for browsing. But web browsing is one of the few area where a single-click command is more powerful than a command line process. But that's only because the content is so tailored to the single click. It's still the equivalent of curl foo.html |  less
ASCII art has it's places but png is way easier to see :-)

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com<mailto:JLightner at water.com>> wrote:
Funny thing is even in Windoze land they’re now emphasizing command line with Powershell and other tools for server administration over the GUIs.

Years ago I did all my work at command line on DOS and when I first had a system with Windoze inherited from someone else for a long time I had Windoze commented out of the autoexec.bat so it ran in DOS mode.

These days I do find some GUIs (e.g. NetBackup) more pleasant to use than TUI or remembering arcane CLI syntax  for various commands but in general still do 95% of my work in CLI.

Imagine having to use lynx, wget or curl to do all your web surfing these days…

From: ale-bounces at ale.org<mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org> [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org<mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org>] On Behalf Of Jim Kinney
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 7:35 AM

To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: What the hell is XSS in Comcast land?

The gui tools are for novices. Always have been and will be. Not trying to sound as harsh as it seems but most people in this work know the real power is in the keyboard not the mouse. The gui acts like training wheels. Learning the command stuff means automation and replication and intense customization. It also means ownership. Many competent people continue to use a gui because of the ownership issue. Ownership of the process also means responsibility for the outcome.
Every decent Linux user, not the casual desktop n00b but the people who use Linux daily and earn an income from their use, should learn the basics of the underlying configuration for things like iptables, networking, user administration, service start and stop, and probably a few others.

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 7:19 AM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com<mailto:jdp at algoloma.com>> wrote:
On 08/12/2013 09:16 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
> Either way, OpenWRT has long had a UI similar to that for the same purpose.  It
> wasn't necessary to use iptables even under older versions of OpenWRT.
For my locations, the UI is **not** and option.  There is just too many options
and settings to be entered and type, tab, type, tab, type, tab for 150 entries
doesn't cut it. If that is just the port forwarding and redirection, dno't
forget about DNS entries, specific IP range blocking, and if you have mutliple
public IPs, it can become impossible to use the GUI.

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