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Table of Contents

• Next Meeting Details
• Presentation: Security by Lynn Barnes
• Tutorial: What to do when you've been hacked by James Chapman
• Upcoming Meetings
• Meeting Directions
• Special Interest Groups (SIGS)
  • Linux SIG (SLUUGLS)
  • Computer Telephony Integration SIG (SLUUG CiTI)
  • Digital Alpha SIG
• Steering Committee
• Sponsors
• SLUUG on the World Wide Web
• SLUUG Administration is volunteer based.
• /usr/groups/other
  • St. Louis Java SIG
• Contacts
• Submitting Articles to the SLUUG CRONicle
• SLUUG PO Box

Next Meeting Details

Wednesday, October 14, 1998 at 6:30 PM
Sunnen Products, 7910 Manchester

Security by Lynn Barnes of MEMC

Lynne Barnes is the Information Systems Security Manager for MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. where she is in the process of establishing a global IS security program. She is also a member of the SAP project team in charge of security and change management. She is also the Global Year 2000 Porject Manager for MEMC.

Prior experience includes work as an Information Systems auditor for 9 years at various companies including Ralston Purina, GTE and Deliotte and Touche performing numerous reviews of systems under development, application and operating system security reviews, etc. She also has international experience serving as the IS Audit Manager where she established the IS auditing function at CODETEL, the Dominican Republic Telephone Company in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Ms. Barnes is a CISA and is a member of ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association) and ISSA (Information Systems Security Association).

Title of the Month

All Security Related books! --> Security related books will have a 25% Discount at October 14 Meeting All regularly priced titles are 20% off retail cost at meeting. Excludes specially priced items or promotional items

The O'Reilly and Associates line of books is available at each monthly meeting as a convenience to our members.

Each month features a book related to that month's presentation topic.

The STL!/unix/usr/group meets the 2nd Wednesday of every month at Sunnen Products, 7910 Manchester Blvd, just east of Hanley on Manchester.

Directions From Downtown

1. Take 40 West to the Hanley exit.
2. Turn left (south) onto Hanley.
3. Turn left (east) onto Manchester, then turn right ASAP into the Sunnen Products driveway.

(NOTE: A security guard from Sunnen is scheduled to be at the door from 6:20 PM to 7:20 PM to allow entry. After 7:20, the door will be unattended and attendees may not be able to enter.)

The SLUUG Steering Committee meets the Tuesday following the general 2nd Wednesday meeting at 6:00 PM in the 2nd floor training room of Daugherty Systems, One City Place in Creve Coeur.

The SLUUG Linux SIG (SLUUGLS) meets the 3rd Thursday of every month at the Indian Trails Public Library.

As our membership grows, we have had some inquiries about the possibility of having Special Interest Groups in several areas. If you are interested in starting or participating in a SIG for System Administration, Networking, C, Object Oriented Programming, a specific vendor, etc., please call Dave Mills at 230-5151, extension 103, or contact any officer of the group.

Visit the Linux SIG home page (http://www.stllinux.org/) for the latest meeting details.

LOCATION DIRECTIONS:
Indian Trails Public Library
8400 Delport Drive
(at Midland)
(314)-428-5424

For more information on SLUUGLS refer to the WWW home page for the group at http://www.stllinux.org/ or contact Matthew Feldt at linux@www.feldt.com.

The CTI SIG is no longer having regular meetings and is currently using a webboard format.

The Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) Users Group is a non-profit organization open to developers, end-users, sales people, and others who share the common interest of melding the telecommunications and computing worlds.

For more information on SLUUG CiTI contact Tony Zafiropoulos at tonyz@ctitek.com or (314)878-9855.

The Digital Alpha SIG is for those interested in Digital UNIX and the DEC Alpha architecture. Visit the Digital Alpha SIG's home at http://www.sluug.org/~newton/asighome.html for more information.

The SLUUG Steering Committee meets the Tuesday following the general 2nd Wednesday meeting at 6:00 PM in the 2nd floor training room of Daugherty Systems, One City Place in Creve Coeur. The guard can direct you to the meeting location. Anyone is welcome to attend. If you would like to become more involved in the planning of SLUUG, feel free to join us at the next Steering Committee meeting. Meetings usually last 1.5 to 2 hours.

• Analysts International
• Andersen Consulting
• Arbor Consulting
• Ask/Ingress Software
• The Charron Law Firm
• CIBER, Inc.
• Computer Task Group
• Cyborg Consulting Enterprise
• Cypress Systems, Ltd.
• Daugherty Systems
• Ferguson Consulting, Inc.
• Gundaker Realtors Better Homes & Gardens
• Hewlett-Packard
• IBM
• Informix Corporation
• Lindenberg & Associates
• Maryville Data Systems, Inc.
• Mastercard International
• Nascote Industries
• O'Reilly & Associates
• Pyramid Technology Corporation
• Rave Computer
• SEI
• Shamrock Computer Resources Ltd.
• Sun Microsystems
• Sunnen Products
• Sybase
• Unisys
• Venmar Systems, Inc.
• WTI Systems, Ltd.

For more information about sponsoring the St. Louis UNIX Users Group, contact Ed Wehner wehner@mail.sluug.org.

The St. Louis UNIX Users Group maintains a WWW page at http://www.sluug.org/. Visit us to learn more about who we are and what we do, visit other UNIX user groups' WWW pages, sign up for a SIG, or just to browse.

SLUUG is looking for volunteers to help with presentations, web page development, managing corporate sponsorships, and many other tasks. If you would like to help out, contact Chris Wanta at cfw1@mail.sluug.org or visit http://www.sluug.org/~cfw1/help.html.

We publish other user group meeting schedules on a reciprocal basis. If you are a member of another non-profit group, please inform them of our policy and invite them to exchange meeting information with editor@mail.sluug.org, or call any of the SLUUG officers.

Next meeting(s) details:

  When:     Thursday, October 8, 1998, 6:30 PM
  Where:    Novell, 600 Emerson Road, Suite 203
  Speaker:  Mark Volkmann, Principle Software Engineer, Object Computing, Inc. 
  Topic:    Java Native Interface (JNI) 

This is the standard way to interface directly with native (C) code from 
Java applications.

  When:     Thursday, November 12, 1998, 6:30 PM
  Where:    Novell, 600 Emerson Road, Suite 203
  Speaker:  Bill Li, our Director of Engineering, Internet Image, Inc. 
  Topic:    The foundation of Beyond Push (TM) Technology  

TargetLink is a Java-based product that allows system administrators to
distribute, install and manage any applications including upgrades and
 updates for PC, UNIX and Mac.  It is based on the foundation of Internet
Image's Beyond Push (TM) Technology.  This is an Application Deployment and
Management (ADM) solution in Java.  The presentation will focus on the
foundation of Beyond Push Technology which is the combination of notification,
Intelligent Pull and feedback.

For more information about the St. Louis Java SIG, visit their home page at http://www.ociweb.com/javasig/.

If you would like to submit an article to the CRONicle of general interest to the members of the St. Louis UNIX Users Group, email it to editor@mail.sluug.org The deadline for article submissions is two weeks before the next main meeting.

The St. Louis UNIX Users Group has a P.O. box. All official correspondence with SLUUG should now be sent to:

    St. Louis UNIX Users Group
    P.O. Box 1184
    Fenton, MO  63026-1184