Perth Linux Users' Group

Next PLUG seminar

Title: "User security on shared hosting and shell servers"
When: Tuesday, 8th July 2008, 7:30pm - 9:00pm.
Where: 'Futuresphere', Christ Church Grammar School, Queenslea Drive, Claremont
Presenter: David Adam

With a computer on every desktop, we sometimes forget that most modern operating systems are designed for more than one user. This talk will take you through the things you need to keep in mind as a user of the most popular multiple-user systems - shared web hosting, and shell servers - such as the UNIX security model, keeping database credentials secure, and the dangers posed by web-administered CMSes.

The principles discussed in this talk are aimed at novice and intermediate Linux users, including those who use Windows on their desktops but manage websites on UNIX hosts, or who use shell servers. Additionally, some tips will be presented for people who are just getting started with administering shared hosting.

David Adam is a volunteer systems administrator for the University Computer Club, and pays the bills by running a Windows network. He enjoys good beer, (very) cheap wine, and spends most of his time as a medical student at UWA.

Visitors and friends are most welcome. We will be ordering pizza for consumption when the talk is over, and possibly adjourning to a nearby pub for general discussion after the presentation.

Getting There

This month's seminar is being held in the 'Futuresphere', Christ Church Grammar School, located at:

Christ Church Grammar School
Queenslea Drive
Claremont WA

A map of the school with the Futuresphere and parking highlighted is located here.

To get to Queenslea Drive from the Freeway, jump off at Mounts Bay Road then take Stirling Hwy to Claremont (about 10 minutes past UWA). Having gone through Claremont, you'll see a stone church to the left; turn immediately left at the next set of lights (Queenslea Drive), and the school will be directly on your right.

Upcoming PLUG seminars

• July 2008: David Adam on User security on shared hosting and shell servers

Past seminars

2008

• June 2008: Alistair Irvine on Making Emacs your bit^H^H^H preferred editor and IDE
• May 2008: Ritchie Young on LDAP for Popular People and Sysadmins
• April 2008: Adon Metcalfe on WPAD for chumps
• March 2008: Ian Kent on Linux Filesystem Internals
• February 2008: Patrick Coleman on iSCSI: It's not a Mac
• January 2008: Adrian Chadd on Web Content Delivery, 2007 style

2007

• January 2007: No seminar
• February 2007: No seminar
• March 2007: Phil Schwan on Deconstructing Lustre
• April 2007: No seminar
• May 2007: Ian Kent on Autofs in the Linux Kernel
• June 2007: No seminar
• July 2007: No seminar
• August 2007: Adrian Chadd on Xen and Virtualisation
• September 2007: Patrick Coleman on Command Line Fu and Cameron Patrick on Map The Planet
• October 2007: Adrian Woodley on Network Monitoring, and Daniel Axtens on Simple Ubuntu Tips and Tricks
• November 2007: Paul Antoine on UNIX in Australia
• December 2007: Davyd Madeley on Awesome Tools for Document Authoring

2006

• January 2006: Stuart Midgley with Linux on supercomputers & tour of IVEC facilities.
• February 2006: Linux.conf.au 2006 reminiscing.
• March 2006: No seminar
• April 2006: No seminar
• May 2006: No seminar
• June 2006: No seminar
• July 2006: No seminar
• August 2006: Adrian Woodley on Virtual E-mail Hosting
• September 2006: Adrian Chadd on Serving a gigabit of web traffic for fun and profit
• October 2006: No seminar
• November 2006: No seminar
• December 2006: No seminar

2005

• January 2005: No seminar
• February 2005: No seminar
• March 2005: Davyd Madeley with The Clubber's Guide to Rapid Application Development with GNOME and Python and Cameron Patrick with Software Archery: hitting the bull's-eye with GNU Arch revision control.
• April 2005: Lightning Talks
• May 2005: Antics of linux.conf.au 2005
• June 2005: Russell Steicke on his winning LCA 2005 hackfest entry
• July 2005: Leon Brooks with a talk mysteriously entitled The Crimson Panacea
• August 2005: Phil Twiss on Open Source WA and Harry McNally on Computer Angels
• September 2005: Alex Dawson on Network management and automation using open source tools
• October 2005: Davyd Madeley on The Ministry of Source: Ubuncool and John Knight with a KDE 3.5 Sneak Preview
• November 2005: Adrian Woodley with Everything you ever wanted to know about VoIP, SIP and Asterisk, but didn't know who to phone
• December 2005: Ian Kent with Autofs, the Linux automounter

2004

• January 2004: No seminar
• February 2004: No seminar. Our AGM was held at the usual seminar time this month
• March 2004: Bernard Blackham on "Cool Things You Should and Shouldn't Do With PostgreSQL"
• April 2004: Nick Bannon, Clare Johnstone and Cameron Patrick on linux.conf.au 2004
• May 2004: Craig Ringer on "Generating quality PDF reports using Python and ReportLab"
• June 2004: Leon Brooks on "Playing with Ruby-SDL"
• July 2004: Bernard Blackham on "Linux, Laptops and Life"
• August 2004: James Levin, Bernard Blackham and Michal Wirski presenting a post-Installfest introduction to Linux
• September 2004: Cameron Patrick on "Shell scripting: why, how and what not to do"
• October 2004: Acure Technology presenting a Novell Linux Desktop show-off session
• November 2004: Jeremy Malcolm presenting "Splinters of a Fragmented Mind: Law, Cross-Platform Development, LDAP and Doctor Who"
• December 2004: No seminar

2003

• January 2003: No seminar; however PLUG helped organise linux.conf.au 2003 this month
• February 2003: No seminar. Our AGM was held at the usual seminar time this month
• March 2003: Tony Breeds on "What's New in 2.6"
• April 2003: Hans Humboldt on "Sun's Position in the Linux Market"
• May 2003: Trent Lloyd on "User-Mode Linux (UML)"
• June 2003: Bernard Blackham on "Speex Development and Applications"
• July 2003: Mike Gilks on "OpenOffice.org Data Connection - databases for the rest of us"
• August 2003: Sacha Schlegel on ebXML (cancelled)
• September 2003: Sacha Schlegel on ebXML
• October 2003: Tony Breeds on networking, part 1 of 3
• November 2003: Adrian Woodley on networking, part 2 of 3 (Samba)
• December 2003: Tony Breeds on networking, part 3 of 3 (ISP hookup, routing, firewalling)

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