Linuxcare: Dear Lina: Bashful about bash

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"Dear Lina:
I'm looking for a tutorial on bash commands -- or to be more accurate, a tutorial on the various commands, switches, and tweaks. I'm being asked to share some of the administrative duties on a Linux server, but my background is in NT. Can you help me?..."

"Dear Lina:
I recently setup Linux on my system, and invited my friend over so I could gloat. I left the room for a couple minutes and when I got back my friend had root access to my machine and was gloating at me! What happened and how do I prevent it from happening again?!..."

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