Last week's TechMail is about one of my favourite programs, sudo: Delegate privileges to users with sudo. It's just a short primer on how to use sudo so for those that do know how to use it and manage /etc/sudoers, it's nothing special, but for those who don't, it's …
more ...The last TechMail is Realize the flexibility of OpenSSH which talks about some of the basics of using OpenSSH, from setting up keys to modifying sshd_config for user/group access controls and different features per group/user. OpenSSH is another of my favourite tools. Of course, there's also the linsec …
more ...As much fun as I had in France, I'm sure glad to be back in Canada. Six more hours until I get to see my girls! Can't wait.
France was fun, so thank you again, Anne, for pushing to get me to go. Very much appreciated. Despite leaving my iPod …
more ...The announcement just went out for the newly formed oss-security group (which is a similar concept to the private vendor-sec group, but open to anyone interested in helping promote and work with security in open source projects). I've mentioned oss-security before, but the "official" PR just came out (thanks to …
more ...Sitting in the Paris office, working across from Oden with Pascal not five feet away, Thomas in the same room, and Pixel, Thierry, and ColinG in the room next to me. Talk about wierd. Some of these guys I've worked with for 8 years and never met them before yesterday …
more ...We got a really really nice review of Mandriva 2008.1 over on Linux.com. Good stuff. It's nice to see the kind words for all the hard work the developers and community have put into this release.
more ...I'm off to the airport now. Should be in France tomorrow at 9am their time (1am my time). Praying for a good flight! For the first time in eight years I will be meeting my co-workers face-to-face. Quite exciting stuff!
more ...Industry Canada has posted a study entitled The Impact of Music Downloads and P2P File-Sharing on the Purchase of Music: A Study for Industry Canada, the description of which is:
more ...Industry Canada undertook a music file sharing study during 2006-07 to measure the extent to which music downloads over peer-to-peer …
The Register has just put up an article entitled After Debian releases SSL patch, a world of hurt for security pros. On page 2, I'm quoted which is cool, but what isn't cool is that the two typos in the article happen in my "quotes". Strange thing is that it …
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