Archive for October, 2005

Kerberos, LDAP, and Single Sign-on

Monday, October 31st, 2005

Another very technical article. This one describes how to set up an infrastructure for securely providing single sign-ons to multiple systems in a LAN. Paranoid Penguin - Single Sign-on and the Corporate Directory, Part I | Linux Journal

Rescuing damaged Server installs

Friday, October 28th, 2005

… we’ve done a few rescues at Freelock Computing lately. I just stumbled across a nice article with some in-depth troubleshooting tips over at Linux Magazine.

Advanced Linux LDAP authentication

Friday, October 28th, 2005

This is a bit technical, but contains steps for securing LDAP to control user access to your network. Linux.com | Advanced Linux LDAP authentication.

VoIP Security

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

Voice Over IP (VoIP) is becoming a main part of the small business infrastructure. As phone networks converge with data networks, security becomes more of a concern. This group is assembling a taxonomy of security issues associated with VoIP: VOIPSA : Activities : Working Groups : Threat Taxonomy.

OpenDocument Format could replace HTML

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

Here’s a fascinating interview with Gary Edwards, who was on the committee that developed OpenDocument as a standard. He talks about the participants on the committee, Microsoft’s involvement and then after-the-fact distortions, why Microsoft XML documents can’t compete, and how OpenDocument will change the web. Read it here: :: Interviews : Gary Edwards: OpenOffice.org 2.0 leaping over legacy lockdown with clean XML