Our Featured Topic for the Thursday, Oct. 20th,
7:30pm ALE Central meeting will be
“Clearing the Myth(st) from some Cloudy Concepts”
and will feature a pair of casual HowTo demonstrations of
two notable options for Linux based virtualization platforms:
“Explorations of the RedHat Enterprise Virtualization Platform”
presented by Jim Kinney
“Trying out Eucalyptus Cloud on a Small Cluster”
presented by [Michael | Wolf] Halton
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Our ALE Central meetings are usually held at Emory
Law School in the Gambrel Hall lecture room 1C.
Our meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found at
http://ale.org/?page_id=2
The next ALE-NW@SPSU meeting is being held
Thursday, Oct. 13th, 7:30pm in room J110**
of the Atrium (J) building on the SPSU campus.
The central topic for our meeting will be a presentation
and dialogue on how Linux users of any skill level can
more effectively utilize the extensive FLOSS community
resources available to them. Whether seeking solutions
for system issues or simply mining the FLOSS universe
pursuing education, interests and curiosity, knowing how
to frame your queries and where to present them is the
fastest path to useful answers and information:
Leveraging the Linux Community
(or how to ask a smarter question)
Presented by JD
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** For a campus map and a link to directions please see
http ://www.spsu.edu/visitspsu/campusmaps/index.htm
Parking in non reserved spaces in the P60 deck is best.
building J, the Atrium building, is a short distance east
of the parking deck.
Directions, parking suggestions and additional details
are also available on the ALE wiki:
http://tomshiro.org/twiki/view/ALE/AleNwOrg
The feature presentation for our ALE Central Meeting at
7:30pm on Thursday, Sept. 15th, 2011 will be:
The Keys to Using SSH
with David Tomaschik
Synopsis:
— The Secure Shell, or SSH, is a powerful communications tool
most often used for securely accessing a command-line session
on a remote system. As essential as that functionality is, there is
much more to SSH than that. This talk will introduce SSH, and
discuss integral applications including secure file transfer,
accessing services behind a firewall, and running graphical
applications software remotely. Specific topics include:
– Starting with SSH
– SSH Keys
– Secure File Copying (SCP)
– Port Forwarding
– X11 Forwarding
– Advanced SSH options and functions
Bio:
– David is a system administrator and Drupal developer at
Kennesaw State University. Additionally, he is currently
pursuing a M.S. in Information Security from Georgia Tech.
When he’s not at the computer (a rare event), he enjoys
sci-fi books and movies and amateur photography.
NOTE:
This is a reprise of the talk offered at ALE NW / SPSU
on Sept. 8th, though to better address the experienced
ALE Central audience some advanced topics are being
added. Slides of the original talk have been posted here:
http://systemoverlord.com/presentations/keys-ssh
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Our ALE Central meetings are usually held at Emory
Law School in the Gambrel Hall lecture room 1C.
Our meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found at
http://ale.org/?page_id=2
We are happy to announce that, following up on a very
successful SPSU install fest event on August 25th,
the organizers of the new ALE-NW @ SPSU group
will be hosting their first monthly meeting on
Thursday, Sept. 8th, 7:30pm
in room J101 on the SPSU campus
The format plan for the ALE@ SPSU meetings is
to offer 2 to 4 short form presentations with an
emphasis on follow up discussion. A featured
presentation at this first meeting will be:
The Keys to Using SSH
with David Tomaschik
**UPDATE 2011.09.13**
Presentation slides are now available at David’s web site:
http://systemoverlord.com/presentations/keys-ssh
Synopsis:
— The Secure Shell, or SSH, is a powerful communications
tool most often used for securely accessing a command-
line session on a remote system. There is much more to
SSH than that. This talk will introduce SSH, and discuss
applications including secure file transfer, accessing
services behind a firewall, and running graphical
applications remotely. Specific topics include:
– Starting with SSH
– SSH Keys
– Secure File Copying (SCP)
– Port Forwarding
– X11 Forwarding
Additional short presentations are in the works
and presentation offers can be emailed to
jdp [at] algoloma.com
** For a campus map and a link to directions please see
http ://www.spsu.edu/visitspsu/campusmaps/index.htm
Parking in non reserved spaces in the P60 deck is best.
building J, the Atrium building, is a short distance east
of the parking deck.
The feature presentation for our ALE Central Meeting at
7:30pm on Thursday, August 18th, 2011 will be:
“The Seven Most Deadly Sins of Linux Securityâ€
presented by Bob Toxen
Abstract:
– Bob Toxen will discuss the seven most deadly sins of Linux security
and how to avoid them with time for Q&A. Key points include:
=> Understanding the seven most deadly sins
=> Password issues
=> Open network ports
=> Insecure and badly configured programs
=> How to protect against new unforseen vulnerabilities
=> The trade-offs between security and convenience
– Participants will learn how to decide what software to install while
installing Linux and how to harden a Linux system after the installation
to greatly reduce the likelihood of a break-in. This presentation is
unique in that a few key techniques will be explained that allow any
SysAdmin — newbie or with decades of experience — to harden a desktop,
laptop, or server in an hour or two so that it will be orders of magnitude
more difficult to compromise.
Bio:
– Mr. Bob Toxen is author of Real World Linux Security Second Edition, 848pp
published by Prentice Hall PTR. He is a world-class expert on Linux and
UNIX security and mixed-OS network security using Linux. His 30+ years of
UNIX and 16 years of Linux experience including being one of the developers
of Berkeley UNIX and being one of the four creators of Silicon Graphics’ UNIX.
– His consulting practice focuses on hardening Linux servers, security
consulting, Linux System Administration, network and computer security
using low cost Linux solutions, including firewalls, virus and spam
filters, VPNs, teaching computer security around the world, and more.
Related link:
Real World Linux Security (2nd Edition)
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The meeting will be held at Emory Law School in our
usual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
Our meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found at