Patrick Allaert's questions

A managed Windows device can join the wired network of my corporate company, while a personal Linux one can't.

As far as I understand, this is possible thanks to IEEE 802.1x standard.

Looking at the configuration, a computer certificate is used and I managed to get access to the private key located under ...\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys and its corresponding certificate.

Questions are:

1. Is it possible given those elements?
2. Private key seems to be in a binary format I don't recognise, this should probably be converted to some DER/PEM format for Linux's NetworkManager? If so, how?

It is known that ext2/ext3 FS have a rather low limit of about 32k files/directories per directory.

It looks like ReiserFS is limited in practice by the r5 hash function which allows about 1 200 000 file names without collisions.

But what about other common Linux File Systems? JFS, XFS, Btrfs, Reiser4, ext4,...

Thanks in advance!

Using Gentoo and KDE 4, opening Konsole or xterm doesn't provide defined stuff in /etc/profile. This file is normally sourced by a login shell, but what can be considered as a login shell in a graphical environment? Is this supposed to be sourced before the X session? Should the shell of Konsole be set up with bash --login? Is this a bug?

Thanks for your help.