CPLUG

The February 2009 CPLUG meeting is over, and was on various security topics:

First up, Jerod Lycett gave a talk on some security basics, including information about passwords, wireless and a few other items of interest.

Second, Jeff Best talked about security and compliance, including the 5 W’s of security. He has a wiki page posted at http://cplug.pbwiki.com/Security-Stuff.

After pizza, John Place talked about SSH, its history, some of its more overlooked but very useful features, and a bit into ~/.ssh/config, and how you can make your SSH life easier using it.

Finally, Chris Moates gave an impromptu talk about the yubikey, a device from Yubico that generates one time passwords. More information on the yubikey can be found at http://www.yubico.com.

Here’s some pictures of each speaker:

The next meeting will be on March 10th.

For the April meeting, I’ll be discussing solutions to control user privileges at the command line level.

I’ll kick things off with a basic introduction to the problem, followed by a high level overview of the most popular solutions around today. Then we’ll go into a lot more detail on how sudo helps to manage this problem effectively and cleanly. From the mundane to the obscure, most of the major functionality of sudo will be covered. The expectation is that you will be better equipped to both understand what sudo is configured to do on your system, as well as be given enough knowledge to start your own further research on the topic.