Features

• Pluggable Authentication Modules for Linux  by Andrew G. Morgan
  An implementation of a user-authentication API
  
• User Administration  by David Bandel
  How to successfully manage your users.
  
• Linux as a Proxy Server  by Peter Elton
  To protect your system, put your firewall on a proxy server.
  
• Readers' Choice Awards 1997  by Gena Shurtleff
  
• System Information Retrieval  by Dan Lasley
  Collect your system configuration files and store them on a separate machine.
  

News & Articles

• Using Linux to Teach Unix System Administration  by Joe Kaplenk
  
• Linux Makes the Big Leagues, Hewlett Packard Interworks 97  by Sam Williams
  
• The Quick Start Guide to the GIMP, Part 2  by Michael J. Hammel
  
• LJ Interviews Larry Augustin  by Marjorie Richardson
  

Reviews

• Product Review   OmniBasic  by Eric Harlow
  
• Product Review   BRU 2000 for X11  by Garrett Smith
  
• Product Review   Raima Database Manager++, Velocis Database Server  by Nick Xidis
  
• Product Review   Perforce Software Configuration Management System  by Tom Bjorkholm
  
• Product Review   VA Research VAR Station II  by Jim Dennis
  
• Book Review   STL for C++ Programmers  by Bob Adkins
  
• Book Review   The Linux Multimedia Guide  by Michael J. Hammel
  

WWWsmith

• Industrializing Web Page Construction  by Pieter Hintjens
  
• Book Review   CGI Developer's Resource  by Reuven Lerner
  
• At the Forge   Keeping Programs Trim with CGI_Lite  by Reuven Lerner
  

Columns

• Letters to the Editor  
  
• From the Editor   Promoting Linux  
  
• From the Publisher   A Confession and Some Ramblings  
  
• Linux Means Business   Linux in Camouflage  
  
• New Products  
  
• Kernel Korner   The New Linux RAID Code  by Miguel de Icaza, Ingo Molnar, and Gadi Oxman
  
• Linux Gazette   Disk Hog: Tracking System Disk Usage  by Ivan Griffin
  
• Best of Technical Support  by Gena Shurtleff