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SAGE-AU NSW Wollongong Meeting - November
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SAGE-AU was formed to advance the profession of System Administration by 
raising awareness of the need for System Administrators, and educating 
System Administrators in technical as well as professional issues. We aim to 
promote interaction between professional System Administrators within 
Australia as well as internationally.

Date:	
	Thursday, 12th of November 1998
	(2nd Thursday of each month)

Time:	
	7:00 - 8:30(ish)

Agenda:	
	7:00 Pizza, Coke, OJ, beer, and refreshments
	7:15 Safe SUID Programs.  An Oxymoron?

Venue:	
	Room 107 (First floor, follow the signs)
	Building 41 (Sciences Building)
	University of Wollongong 
	Northfields Avenue, Wollongong
	Map at http://www.psyc.uow.edu.au/~russell/sage-map.html

Who:	
	SAGE-AU Members, System Administrators
	(Visitors are welcome. After attending two
	meetings, visitors should become members)


Topic:	Safe SUID Programs. An Oxymoron?

Scott investigates common problems and mistakes encountered
with developing and using SUID and SGID programs. He looks 
at some measures we can take with Perl to increase our confidence
with the security of home grown and other SUID programs.

Scott Hamilton is a Systems Administrator in the Department of Psychology
at the University of Wollongong.  Scott administers a mixed bag of Solaris,
IRIX, Linux, NT, Windows and Macintosh systems.  When not moutain biking or 
rock climbing he is a Perl and Linux enthusiast.

Purpose:
	To get New South Wales System Managers, PC administrators, 
	System Programmers & Network Administrators together.
	To lend a sympathetic ear to the plight of System Support.

Refreshments:
	Light refreshments are served.

RSVP:         
	Russell Noble 
	russell_noble@uow.edu.au
	(02) 4221 4357