Brad's Unix and Linux Publications
Brad is a Unix and Linux systems administrator, and he also
know a bit about
Windows. He has written articles for SAGE-AU's newsletter, Sage Advice,
and he maintains some packages for Debian. The following are Brad's
Publications, which are his articles and
tutorials showing you
how to do many system admin and networking tasks
that will help you in
your work.
Linux
Linux
in a commercial environment - This paper was
presented to SAGE-AU
'98 and to SAGE-QLD.
A
Brief History of Linux - This article covers a brief
history of Linux, what platforms it runs under, and mentions a few
different distributions.
Multilink
PPP under Linux - This is a brief description of how
I got multilink PPP working under RedHat 5.2
Linux
Clustering - Advanced Topics - This article covers
advanced topics in clustering such as virtual servers, and high
availability.
Debian
Packages and Boot Loaders - This article covers
creating Debian kernel packages, and how to configure grub and lilo. - PDF
Introduction
to IPSec - This article covers what IPSec is, and
some scenarios for deploying it, based on Linux's FreeSWAN
implementation. Written in June 2002 and published in June
2002 SAGE
Advice. - PDF
Introduction
to PAM - This article covers what PAM is, and covers
some example modules.
Virtual Machines
under Linux - This presentation covers virtual
machines under Linux, focusing on User Mode Linux and mentioning VMWare
and Wine. (PDF)
Intro
to MRTG - This article covers a basic introduction
to graphing with MRTG - without using SNMP - both of local and remote
servers. (PDF)
Apache
Introduction
to Securing Apache - Covers basic Apache
installation and configuration.
ACLs
and Apache Modules - This article covers access
control lists (ACLs) under Apache.
Apache
Redirections - This archive covers using Apache's
mod_rewrite and mod_proxy to redirect requests t
o data that may not be directly accessible. (PDF)
Squid
Introduction
to Squid - This article covers basic Squid
installation and configuration.
ACLs
under Squid - This article covers access control
lists (ACLs), delay pools, and many other useful controls under Squid.
SSH
SSH
Port Forwarding and Tunnelling - This covers using
SSH for port forwarding, a ssh proxy, and tunnelling rsync and cvs over
it. (PDF)
SSH
Tricks - This covers a couple of interesting SSH
tricks, namely ssh and cvs gateways, and an example of port forwarding
in use. (PDF)
PuTTY
Notes -
Some notes about how to use PuTTY, including how to generate a key, how
to setup pageant, and how port forwarding is configured.
Perl
Basic
Introduction to Perl - This article is a basic
introduction to Perl.
Perl
Command Line Options - This article covers useful
Perl one-liners, and the associated command line options.
Perl
and Net::LDAP - This article covers some basics of
using Perl and Net::LDAP.
Introduction
to Using Databases with Perl - This article covers
basic use of DBI with Perl, and shows how to connect to a database,
prepare a query and return data. (PDF)
Sending
Mail the Net::SMTP Way - This article covers how to
send mail using Net::SMTP and other interesting things
you can do with it. (PDF)
Perl
Mail Box Manipulation - This article covers how to
manipulate mailbox using Mail::Box and other interesting things you can
do with it. (PDF)
Perl-PHP
Rosetta Stone - Rosetta stone that covers doing
various things in Perl and PHP.
Inline
Replacing Text with Perl - Explains how to do search
and replaces on files inline using Perl.
Perl
Autosplit One-Liners - Shows how useful perl
autosplit one liners can be.
Read
Receipts in Email - Shows the format of the email
header to get read receipts.
LDAP
LDAP
Theory and Management - Covers LDAP theory and how
to manage the data. (PDF)
LDAP
Servers and Applications - Covers LDAP servers and
applications. (PDF)
LDAP
Tutorial - This presentation
gives an overview of what LDAP is, and covers a few uses for it. (PDF)
System
Authentication using LDAP - A
short presentation with basic information about LDAP and how to set up
system authentication using pam_ldap and nss_ldap. -HTML
(Paper) -MagicPoint
(Slides) -HTML
(Slides)
Introduction
to LDAP - This article is a basic introduction to
LDAP.
Internet
Setting
up an Intranet Router - The Beginning - This article
was written for Linux.com
Security section, and published
on the 27th of September, 1999. It covers the concepts of an Linux
based intranet router, valid services to run, and much more.
Basic
Intranet Configuration - This article covers basic
router configuration, ip masquerading, and basic DNS administration.
Applications
for a Intranet Router - This covers a few of the
basic applications you may want to run on a router, such as DHCP and
Junkbuster.
A Case Study in Website
Management - This is an overview
of the procedures Plugged
In Software uses to manage client and internal websites. -Paper
-Slides
A
Newbies Guide to Security - This covers a basic
newbie security guide, and has things to check after install. (PDF)
Introduction
to Bitlbee - This is a basic introduction to
Bitlbee, a IRC to other chat network gateway. It supports other chat
networks such as AIM, ICQ, Jabber and MSN. (PDF)
An
ADSL Router using FreeBSD - This article covers how
to upgrade a FreeBSD box and set it up as an ADSL router for an
internal network, including how to firewall and do port forwards. (PDF)
(Firewall
script)
Firewall
Introduction
to Firewall Theory - This article covers a lot of
basic security strategies and ideas.
Introduction
to Ipchains - This article is a basic introduction
to ipchains.
Introduction
to Netfilter - This article is a basic introduction
to netfilter.
XFree86
XFree4.0
Introduction - This article a basic introduction for
XFree 4.0.
Xinerama
- Multi-headed X - This article covers basic
configuration of Xinerama for multiheaded X.
Various
MRTG
Graphing of a Cisco CSS - Explains how to get useful
SNMP information from a Cisco Content Service Switch.
Identity
Synchronization for Windows account linking -
Explains how to link LDAP users to AD without using the provided
scripts.
MacOSX
10.3 AD Authentication - A description of getting
Mac OS X 10.3 to authenticate from an Active Directory domain.
LaTeX
and HTML equivalents - A brief listing of LaTeX and
HTML code extracts showing how to do the same thing in either language.
Making
Windows Unixlike - This is a list of links to useful
utilities to make Windows a little more unix-like.
Installing
Avantgo under Linux - Some old instructions on
installing Avantgo under Linux.
Notes
Bofh
Notes - Notes about various sysadmin tasks.
PHP
Notes - Notes about PHP and how to do various
things.
Bridging
Firewall - Notes about building a bridging firewall
under Debian.
Samba
PDC - Notes about Samba PDCs and joining various MS
OSs to the domain.
Useful
Command Linux stuff - Random useful command line
stuff.
Winbind -
Notes on how to get winbind working under Debian against Win2k.
Ssh.com
and OpenSSH Interoperability - Notes on how to get
ssh.com and openssh interoperating.
Ssh
port forward tricks - Notes on how to use ssh port
forwards to access stuff (ie VNC and RDP) behind a firewall.
Tru64
and Solaris notes - Notes about Solaris and Tru64
MS
SFU 3.0 LDAP Auth - Notes about how to auth against
Active Directory with SFU extensions, using PADLs nss_ldap and
pam_ldap, and Solaris' ldapclient.
OpenSSL
Certificates - Notes about how to create an OpenSSL
CA and sign a IIS cert request.
HTTP::Recorder -
Notes about HTTP::Recorder, a Perl module to record HTTP actions and
generate a WWW::Mechanize script
Nokia
Ringtones notes - Notes about getting ringtones onto
a Nokia 6310i (or similar)
Copying
CDs - Notes about duplicating an audio cd - make
sure it's legal though
Dumping
Sun ONE Directory Server Changelog to LDIF - Notes
on how to dump a Sun Directory Server changelog out to LDIF
Subversion
and Apache 2 - Notes on getting Subversion
working with Apache.
Tru64
Users and C2 Security - Notes about how to deal with
Tru64 users with C2 security enabled.
Scripts
LDAP
Admin Tools - Web and CLI based tools to modify LDAP
users.
Book
Library - Web based library system, with a database
backend.
Mailman
Scripts - A variety of mailman scripts to do various
functions.
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