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Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 10:30:00 -0500 (EST)
From: John Bacalle <jbacalle@nylug.org>
Reply-To: Announcements for NYLUG <nylug-announce@mail.nylug.org>
To: NYLUG Announcements <nylug-announce@nylug.org>
Subject: [nylug-announce] NY Linux Users Grp. 18 February Meeting: Mordy
Ovits on Understanding Authentication on Linux
February 18th, 2004
Wednesday
6:30PM-8:00PM
IBM Headquarters Building
590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street
12th Floor, home to the IBM Linux Center of Competency
** RSVP Instructions **
Unless you have already rsvp'ed for a prior meeting, everyone
should RSVP to attend. http://rsvp.nylug.org
Check in with photo ID at the lobby for badge and room number.
** Note Meetings Are On the 12th Floor **
Mordy Ovits (NYLUG.org)
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Understanding Authentication on Linux
This month we have a special treat, our presenter will be Mordy Ovits,
one of our NYLUG members. Mordy is known for his deep knowledge of
Linux, and for his areas of specialty. Also, this month we are trying
something new, regular monthly book giveaways. Thanks to the generosity
of several technical book publishers we will give one book away per
meeting. In return we ask for a brief, or, long (your choice) yet
always thoughtful review of the book, to be ready for the following
month's meeting. Now, on to the meeting.
You turn your Linux box on and log in. You've done it a million times
before. But did you really understand what happened when you logged in?
The Linux platform offers extremely powerful and flexible
authentication options. Mordy Ovits (a NYLUG member) will cover the
internals of Linux' authentication features, which remain poorly
understood. The focus of the talk will be on Pluggable Authentication
Modules (PAM).
PAM, invented by Sun Microsystems, allows for framework-independent
system authentication. Linux, like all modern Unixes, uses PAM for
nearly all authentication, allowing for tremendous flexibility. You can
use PAM to authenticate against a RADIUS server or a Windows Domain, or
to prevent people from choosing bad passwords.
Mordy will be going over the PAM architecture and origins. He will
discuss how programs interact with PAM, and how to configure it. A
basic knowledge of the various authentication models and schemes will
be helpful, but is not required. The talk will be slightly more
technical than the usual talk, but not as technical as Mordy's January
2003 talk on Kernel Packet Mangling and Filtering. Thus, everyone
should benefit from the presentation.
To cap off the meeting, this month's book giveaway title is ``Red Hat
Linux Fedora and Enterprise Edition Bible,'' ($50.00 value).
For More Information Visit:
* Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/
* Google on PAM
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...cation+Modules
About Mordy Ovits:
Mordy spent three years as a cryptographic engineer, before moving into
security consulting with Internet Security Systems. He is currently
employed at a major financial firm as a Network and Information
Security Engineer.
Free Stuff!
Swag of undetermined value and quantity may be distributed on a
first-come, first-served basis. Arrive early for the best selection.
Keysignings
GPG cryptography. Immediately after the presentation and continuing
at Stammtisch we will be gathering for a keysigning. For those who
already have keys, please remember to bring paper printouts of your
40-character key fingerprint, as per the instructions in our howto
docs. If you haven't created a key yet, and for keysigning details,
our howto docs are a must read. http://www.nylug.org/keys
Stammtisch
After the meeting ... Join us around 8:30pm or so at TGI Friday's,
located at 677 Lexington Avenue and 56th Street, second floor.
Northeast corner.
Please see our home page at http://www.nylug.org for the HTMLized
version of this announcement, our archives, and a lot of other good
stuff.
Monthly Reminder!
Please read the NYLUG-Talk Posting Guidelines at:
http://www.nylug.org/mlistguide/
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February 2004 - The New York Linux Users Group, NYLUG.org
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