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I had an argument with a superior about this. Though at first glance the prior user of a laptop only did work in his own documents-folders, should I always install a new OS for the next user or is deleting the old profile enough? The software that is installed is mostly also needed by the next user.

I think an install is needed, but except my own argument of viruses and private data, what reasons are there for doing so?

At our company it is allowed to use the PC for e.g. private mail, on some PCs are even games installed. We have kinda mobile users, that are often on site at a customer, so I don't really blame them.

Also because of that we have a lot of local admins out there.

I know both the private use and the availability of local admin-accounts aren't good ideas, but that's how it was handled before I worked here and I can only change this once I am out of traineeship ;)

Edit: I think all of the answers posted are relevant, and I also know that a couple of the practices we have at my company aren't the best to begin with (local admin for too many people for example ;).

As of now, I think the most usable answer for a discussion would be the one from Ryder. Although the example he gave in his answer may be exaggerated, it has happened before that a former employee forgot private data. I recently found a retail copy of the game Runaway in a old laptop and we had a couple of cases of remaining private images, too.

This is a Canonical Question about the Cost of Enterprise Storage.
See also the following question:

• What's the best way to explain storage issues to developers and other users

Regarding general questions like:

• Why do I have to pay 50 bucks a month per extra gigabyte of storage?
• Our file server is always running out of space, why doesn't our sysadmin just throw an extra 1TB drive in there?
• Why is SAN equipment so expensive?

The Answers here will attempt to provide a better understanding of how enterprise-level storage works and what influences the price. If you can expand on the Question or provide insight as to the Answer, please post.

I learned to use gnu-screen and have been using it for the past several weeks. I got a grip of the basics now, and would be very helpful if I get these queries clarified:

1. How do I rename / reorder / move windows in Linux screen utility?

   For eg., after a few days of use, I come to a state where the window-numbers are 2, 3, 6, 8. Now I want a new-window to be created at #9, or #7. Is this possible? If yes, how?

   Also, is it possible to 'move' the window #6 to #4 or #7? If yes, how?

2. Scrolling shortcut: Scroll takes Ctrl-A + Esc, and then Ctrl-u / Ctrl-d. Is there a way to map PgUp / PgDn to do these directly? Or, is there a way to map some key (like F5) to take me to copy mode, and then PgUp / PgDn for scrolling?

3. I have enabled "caption always", so the current window title is displayed always at the bottom. Is there a way to display the current window's log-file-name and logging status (on/off) in the same caption bar?

I'm trying to get ssh to automatically change to a particular directory when I log in. I tried to get that behaviour working using the following directives in ~/.ssh/config:

Host example.net
LocalCommand "cd web"

but whenever I log in, I see the following:

/bin/bash: cd web: No such file or directory

although though there is definitely a web folder in my home directory. Even using an absolute path gives the same message. To be clear, if I type cd web after logging in I get to the right folder.

What am I missing here?

EDIT:

Different combinations of quotes/absolute paths give different error messages:

LocalCommand "cd web"
/bin/bash: cd web: No such file or directory

LocalCommand cd web
/bin/bash: line 0: cd: web: No such file or directory

LocalCommand cd /home/gareth/web
/bin/bash: line 0: cd: /home/gareth/web: Input/output error

This makes me think that the quotes shouldn't be there, and that there's another error happening.

Is there any reason why I would want to have

iptables -A INPUT -j REJECT

instead of

iptables -A INPUT -j DROP