Linux Journal Issue #44/December 1997

Emphasis: System Administration

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
  • BRU 2000 for X11 by Garrett Smith
  • Raima Database Manager++, Velocis Database Server by Nick Xidis
  • Perforce Software Configuration Management System by Tom Bjorkholm
  • VA Research VAR Station II by Jim Dennis
• Book Review
  • STL for C++ Programmers by Bob Adkins
  • 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