Meeting info (security on the desktop?)

[Brian Kelsay]

Forgot this part.   I'm doing a fresh install of Mandrake 7.0 on a box this
afternoon.   I'm going to install everything and we can pick the mother
apart.  It's a test box so it won't matter if we mess something up.

Brian Kelsay
Former Y2K Flunky
(I no longer want to Y2K anything)

----- Original Message -----
From: steve doerr <sdoerr at qni.com>

> Brian Kelsay wrote:
>
> > Meeting place is the Missouri Valley room on the third floor of
> > the downtown Public Library, 311 E 12th street.  The
> > meeting formally starts at 6:30.
> >
> > I have some giveaway items from Redhat that we can have a drawing for
and
> > we need a discussion topic.  I was thinking about Security in Linux as
that
> > is something on everyone's mind lately.   I saw a list of Linux
seminars
> > that SGI was giving around the country and at almost every location
they
> > are discussing security.   So everyone bring security questions and
think
> > of something profound and security related to say.   See you there.
>
> How about desktop security as a subtopic?  Network people live and breath
this
> stuff, but desktop dialup users may not be used to worrying about it as
they
> move to dsl and cable modems.  Log monitors, checking inetd.conf,
Linuxconf,
> etc.  Stuff that desktop users should know to secure their systems.  I
know I
> have a lot of questions.
>
> Steve