[ale] [ANNC] ALE-NW @ SPSU MTG. for THIS Thurs., May 9, 7:30pm

[JD]

The next ALE-NW at SPSU meeting is being held Thursday May 9th, 2013 at 7:30pm in
room J-266 of the Atrium (J) building on the SPSU campus. This is an open
meeting. Everyone is invited, students, non-students, old and young.

Sorry for the late notice. Sometimes life gets in the way.

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The feature presentation will be by Michael Potter presenting on:

              sudo: Beginner to Expert in 1 hour

Abstract:
This presentation will begin with a quick demo for those of you who are
unfamiliar with sudo. The complete syntax of the configuration file will be
explained starting with the simplest rules to the most complex. Finishing with a
discussion recipes to solve real world problems.

Michael started developing this presentation after getting frustrated trying to
understand the sudo configuration file syntax. He added the real world problem
while helping people on the sudo mailing list.

sudo is a security tool that comes pre-installed on many *NIX systems, including
mac os x, and most distributions of Linux. sudo allows for fine grained control
of privileges as an alternative to setuid programs & scripts, turning on read &
write privileges on sensitive files, sharing passwords, and (gasp) giving out
the root password.

Bio:
Michael has been working in IT since 1989 when he
switched from programming automotive embedded systems.

Since that time he has been involved in projects related
to moving mainframe applications to UNIX and Linux using
open-source technologies.  Michael is the lead author of the
open source library that allows socket code originally developed on the
mainframe to be recompiled on Linux: http://code.google.com/p/ezasoket/

Recently Michael is work on various projects from Groovy/Grails to
development of iPhone/Blackberry/Android applications for business.

In 2009 Michael and his wife Lanna moved their consulting business
from Chicago to Atlanta.


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For a campus map and a link to directions please see
<http ://www.spsu.edu/visitspsu/campusmaps/index.htm>
or visit the ALE NW wiki page at
<http://tomshiro.org/twiki/view/ALE/AleNwOrg>
Parking in non-reserved spaces in the P60 deck is best.
Building J, the Atrium building, is a short distance east of the parking deck.
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ALE-NW at SPSU meetings are open events and we hope you will join us!  We generally
meet on the 2nd Thursday of the month, but always watch the ale.org email list
for specifics. Also remember that topic suggestions and presentation offers for
meetings can be emailed to [ jdp (at) algoloma ]

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