From: Daniel <daniel__gauthier@yahoo.com>
Subject: Minutes of the KLUG for August 8th, 200

August 8th, 2001

Minutes for the KLUG:
 
Roll call: 

          Brigitte brica@wolfhoundweb.com
          Clayton  clayton.c@sympatico.ca
          Daniel   daniel@klug.on.ca
          Rodney   rodney@kingston.net
          Mike     szafranski@canada.com
          Derek    dpaul@adan.kingston.net
          Mark     mark@klug.on.ca

The meeting took place at our usual place:  The
Royal Military College.  Thanks to Brigitte and
Ross for posting directions pointing to the 
room.

Rodney and Mark brought their computers for the
demo.

This meeting was about Network II (a.k.a the 
Wing It Night as we talked about a little bit of
everything :-)

Unfortunately we did not have a serial cable to
complete the installation, therefore we were
unable to complete the installation.  Thanks 
Mark Rodney for keeping a happy face despite the 
fact we could not make use of your boxes.

Here are the subjects Mark entertained us about:

1-  We started with a definition and
demonstration of LILO (Linux Loader).  From
there, Mark showed us how to get in single mode.

2-  From there, we covered the licencing 
subject of GNU.  A description of the various
type of
licencing, especially the LesserGPL.

For more information see:

  http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html

3-  After this discussion, Mark also toutch the
DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act).  See:

 http://www.lib.umich.edu/copyright/dmca.html

Good read and mostly US driven

4-  Then we we went back to the meat of the
meeting.

We looked at the commands:  dmesg

See: 

 
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue59/nazario.html
 
5-  We also looked at the Sendmail 
configuration on a linux box and how we can
internally set up 
a private domain name.  Its like creating your 
own domain name in a LAN.

See: 
 
http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/solrhe/Securing-Optimizing-Linux-RH-Edition-v1.3/chap22sec173.html

Here are the minimum requirements if you wish 
to create your own DNS at home:

-  486 pentium
-  16 MB ram
-  2 network cards ISA running at 10 Mbps 
minimum
-  1 Gb hard disk space
 
6-  Security
 
Mark also talked about security.  More
specificaly the topology of PKI.  Basically,
there are two models of  certifications:
 
The web of trust
 
See:

  http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html
 
OR: 

http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/1997/11/
and the Hierarchy model.  Companies like
Verisign, Entrust are models we talked about. 

Here in Canada, you can "buy" a CA certificate
from banks or directly on line with.
 
See: 

  http://www.royalbank.com/newsroom/news2.html
       
       (last press release about Entrust)
 
 

 
http://www.cibc.com/english/noteworthy/digital_signatures/
 
and:
  
  http://www.entrust.com/authority/index.htm
 
See:
 
http://www.networkcomputing.com/909/909colmoskowitz.html

and
 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/sectax.htm#t436
 
 
What you should be watching for is security
whereas the ZONE you create in your 
mini-intranet has the minimum possible entry to
the your smpt configuration.
 
7-  Mike Szafranski suggested that we hold the
meetings at the public library to be able to
attrack more people.  He has been given a "Go
ahead" to arrange a meeting overther and he
should (or may) follow-up on this.  We will 
find out at our next meeting.

8-  Derek Paul and or Mike szafranski also
suggested we hold a meeting about "security"
 
9-  Closing:  We finished at 10 pm (almost) and
everyone was happy.
 
Daniel.

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