Linux Journal Contents #177, January 2009
January 1st, 2009 by Staff
Linux Journal Issue #177/January 2009
It's a battle as old as time: good vs. evil. Fortunately, Linux and FOSS are on our side as we wage the battle against those who try to steal our secrets and invade our systems. Checking your system's security is best done sooner rather than later. Test the locks with our article on security verification; find out how to use PAM to help secure your systems; use MinorFS and AppArmor to implement discretionary access control; learn more about Samba security in part III of our series; use Darknet to help detect bots and secure your systems; use the Yubikey to increase your site's security; and don't forget to lock the doors, because a cold boot attack could render your security useless if somebody has physical access to your computer. But, we're not just about sowing the seeds of fear. We also show you how to use memcached in Rails, how to manage multiple servers efficiently, how to deploy applications easily with Capistrano, how to manage your videos with MythVideo, how to mix it up a bit (your audio that is), and even play a few games.
Features
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Yubikey
by Dirk Merkel
Learn how to increase system and on-line security.
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Cold Boot Attack Tools for Linux
by Kyle Rankin
Use open-source tools to dump and scan RAM from a target system for encyption keys and other goodies.
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PAM—Securing Linux Boxes Everywhere
by Federico Kereki
How to implement Linux security checks.
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Testing the Locks: Verifying Security in a Linux Environment
by Jeramiah Bowling
Four checks for a more secure network.
Indepth
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MinorFs
by Rob Meijer
A set of user-space filesystems for enhanced discretionary access control.
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Detecting Botnets
by Grzegorz Landecki
Using Darknet to secure environments from threats in the wild.
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MythVideo: Managing Your Videos
by Michael J. Hammel
Too many videos in your MythTV menu? With a little planning, finding your favorite movies can be a breeze
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Using Capistrano
by Dan Frost
Simplify application deployment.
Columns
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Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge
Memcached Integration in Rails
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Marcel Gagné's Cooking with Linux
Evil Agents under the Bed and Other Scary Things that Go Boom!
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Dave Taylor's Work the Shell
Special Variables I: the Basics
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Mick Bauer's Paranoid Penguin
Samba Security, Part III
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Kyle Rankin's Hack and /
Manage Multiple Servers Efficiently
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Kyle Rankin and Bill Childers'
Point/Counterpoint
Small Laptops vs. Large Laptops
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Doc Searls' EOF
The Power of Definitions
Review
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Mixing It Up with the Behringer BCF2000
by Dan Sawyer
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News Flash: Linux Kernel 3.0 to include an on-the-go Expresso machine interface! Ok, maybe not, but Linux is definitely going mobile, from phones to e-readers. Find out more inside about Android, the Kindle 2, the Western Digital MyBook II, The Bug, and Indamixx (a portable recording studio). And if you've gone mobile and you been wanting more Emacs in your life then check out Conkeror.
To compliment the mobile we've got the stationary: parsing command line options with getopt, checking your Ruby code with metric_fu, and building a secure Squid proxy. How is this stationary you ask? What can we say? It's not. We just wanted to see if anybody actually read this part of the page :) .
All this and more, and all you have to do is get your hot sweaty hands on the latest copy of Linux Journal.

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Bull versus whatever
On December 16th, 2008 Anonymous (not verified) says:
This is the last place on earth where I expect to find the old cliche of good vs evil. What (rich) people don't understand is that too much good breeds evil too: we become insensitive to other humans and rather label THEM the evils. How about a more balanced and peaceful approach? I know I'm off the subject, but I think I'm in the spirit of FOSS. How about a little bit of dualism? Let the good and evil compete- that's how progress is made- by COMPETING contraries.
Laur Tobos, Lansing MI
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