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                           SAGE-AU'98
            The Sixth Annual Conference & General Meeting
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                        July 6 - 10, 1998
                       Old Parliament House
                            Canberra

                      Call for Participation
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I would like to extend SAGE-AU's welcome to you to come along to SAGE-AU's
sixth annual conference specialising on System Administration. You should
find attached an ASCII copy of the registration form and relevant information.
HTML and Postscript versions are available from the Conference WWW site at:
http://www.sage-au.org.au/conf/ You will also find more details and better
descriptions of the conference, the talks, the tutorials and the people there.

You won't find a conference anywhere else in Australia with so much technical
content related to System Administration (of any systems) at so little cost.
We are not in it for the money, we are in it for the education and betterment
of the System Administration profession. :-)

Those of you who don't know, SAGE-AU is The System Administrators Guild of
Australia. (http://www.sage-au.org.au)

I look forward to seeing you there.

David Conran

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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

Dear Delegate,

SAGE-AU is proud to be presenting our sixth and largest conference on System
Administration so far. This year the conference will be held in Canberra at
Old Parliament House which will provide a very formal backdrop to our excellent
overseas speakers and our less than formal membership.

SAGE-AU is going from strength to strength and our annual conference is the
culmination of our year. Following a year which has seen the introduction of
many new member services, and subsequently a significant number of new members,
we expect to see the halls of parliament full of System Administrators
networking and solving each others problems much as we do through our mailing
list and other services.

Please take full advantage of the excellent tutorials and the conference
proper. I and the SAGE-AU executive look forward to meeting you all at the
conference.

Craig Bishop
President SAGE-AU


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Barbara L. Dijker

Barb Dijker is currently a system and network consultant with Labyrinth
Computer Services, the Executive Director and co-founder of the Colorado
Internet Cooperative Association, the principal manager and co-founder of
another ISP called NeTrack that serves customers world-wide, and finally an
elected Executive of the USENIX Systems Administrators' Guild (SAGE). Recently
Barb has been instrumental in forming The Mountain Area Exchange - a US
regional Internet exchange.  Barb gained her experience working on the front
lines in the University of Colorado Computer Science Dept for more than 4 years
and prior to that at U S WEST, Lockheed-Martin, and Computer Sciences Corp. She
has taught for Addison-Wesley, Digital Equipment Corp, and at conferences in
the USA, Europe, Brazil, and Asia.

Andrew Tridgell

Andrew Tridgell is a PhD student at the Australian National University in
Canberra. While trying to set a record for the longest time spent
procrastinating over a PhD Andrew has worked on a number of free software
projects including Samba, rsync, JitterBug, Linux/AP+ and KnightCap. Andrew
also enjoys playing chess and ultimate frisbee.

Marcus J. Ranum

Marcus Ranum is CEO of Network Flight Recorder, Inc., and has been specializing
in Internet security since he built the first commercial firewall product in 
1989. He has acted as chief architect and implementor of several other notable
security systems including the TIS firewall toolkit, TIS Gauntlet firewall, 
whitehouse.gov, and the Network Flight Recorder. Marcus frequently lectures on
Internet security issues, and is co-author of the "Web Site Security
Sourcebook" with Avi Rubin and Dan Geer, published by John Wiley and sons.

TUTORIALS

Time
Monday 6 July 1998
9.00 - 12.30 PM
T01 - ISP SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION, BARBARA L. DIJKER

An ISP environment provides some specific challenges. The user community is
highly dynamic and demanding, the security vulnerability is hostile, and the
growth rate is astronomical. This tutorial will illustrate the potential
associated problems and will provide tips to meet these challenges specific to
ISPs - both technology and policy. We'll discuss typical pitfalls in problems
faced by ISPs and how they can be best avoided or solved.

T02 - DOCUMENTATION TECHNIQUES FOR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS, MICHAEL CIAVARELLA

System Administrators employ a variety of tools and skills in their day-to-day
work. However there is one skill area which has traditionally been ignored,
overlooked, or "left until we have time". That skill is the ability to produce
effective documentation. This tutorial covers basic techniques for writing
effective documentation, and improving your existing documentation practises.

1.30 - 5.00 PM

T03 - MANAGING ACCEPTABLE USE (INC. SPAM), BARBARA L. DIJKER

This is a follow-on to the ISP System Administration tutorial. It has become
clear that "netiquette" is not longer sufficient to ensure everyone plays
nicely on the Internet. If something can be done, there appears to be some user
who wants to do it - using your network. Managing acceptable use is much more
than itemizing disallowed activities.


T04 - PC/MACINTOSH INTEROPERABILITY, LUBOSH HANUSKA

This tutorial will present the basics of interoperability of IBM PC compatible
and Apple Macintosh desktop systems, give ideas on where and how to start
depending on the current situation, and suggest strategic directions for
future proofing the mixed site. A current site at the ANU will be presented as
case study, and real life examples from this site will be given through the 
tutorial.

Time
Tuesday 7 July 1998
9.00 - 5.00 PM

T05 - SECURE COMMUNICATIONS OVER OPEN NETWORKS, MARCUS J. RANUM

This tutorial is intended to teach the experienced network and system manager
how to build and deploy a wide range of secure communication tools. Tools are
discussed within the overall context of communication security and
appropriateness. 
Topics will range from the highly paranoid, including basic spycraft and covert
channels, to the practical, such as building your own VPN router or operating
PGP. We will cover actual configurations, set-up procedures, and command lines
for software packages on BSD UNIX.

9.00 - 12.30 PM

T06 - TCL AND JAVA, STEVE BALL

This tutorial describes Tcl Blend, Jacl and the Tcl Bean, and how to write
applications that integrate both Tcl and Java, gaining the best features of
each.  These products allow Tcl to be integrated with Java, and are a boon to
both Tcl/Tk and Java application developers - Tcl gets a cross-platform
extension language and Java gets a mature, robust scripting environment.

1.30 - 5.00 PM

T07 - PERL 5 DISTRIBUTION AND MODULE INSTALLATION GUIDE, ANTHONY DAVID

This tutorial covers installing these products on Solaris, HP/UX 9.x, Linux,
MacOS and Windows NT. The rationale of the Configure script will be discussed
and some of the more useful non-default options will be described including
managing multiple releases and using newer features such as the experimental
threading facilities. I will briefly outline the installation of DBI and DBD
for Oracle Postgres and mSQL-mySQL, Tk, LWP and Apache modules. The CPAN online
installer will also be described.

Time
Wednesday 8 July 1998
9.00 - 5.00 PM

T08 - AUDITING - THE UNEXPECTED ALLY, GEOFF HALPRIN

As a system administrator, the audit is the most valuable tool in your arsenal
when it comes to dealing with management. It should be your primary tool for:
convincing management that there is a problem that needs addressing; educating
management as to the true nature and complexity of your role; and planning
technical improvement works to a site.
This workshop will introduce the concepts and principles of audits, examine in
detail how to conduct an audit, and look at how to present the results of that
work to management in the form of a formal audit report.

9.00 - 12.30 PM

T09 - INTRUSION DETECTION AND NETWORK FORENSICS, MARCUS J. RANUM

What can intrusion detection do for you? Intrusion detection systems are
designed to alert network managers to the presence of unusual or possibly
hostile events within the network. Once you've found traces of a hacker, what
should you do? What kind of tools can you deploy to determine what happened,
how they got in, and how to keep them out? This tutorial provides a highly
technical overview of the state of intrusion detection software and the types
of products that are available, as well as the basic principles to apply for
building your own intrusion detection alarms. Methods of recording events
during an intrusion are also covered.

1.30 - 5.00 PM

T10 - SAMBA, ANDREW TRIDGELL

This tutorial will go into the SMB protocol and Samba in depth. It will be
technically oriented with large amounts of time being spent looking at sniffer
dumps to reveal the mysteries of browsing and SMB authentication. I'll also be
demonstrating some of the newer features in Samba, such as NT domain logins
and a GUI administration interface. Here is your chance to tell me what you
hate about Samba and what you want added in a forum where I can't just delete
your email.

CONFERENCE


Thursday, 9th July 1998 - Conference Day #1

8:30am	Registration

9:00am	Official Opening and Welcome
	Craig Bishop, SAGE-AU President

9:15am	The State of Intrusion Detection
	Marcus J. Ranum, Network Flight Recorder

10:05am	Questions.

10:15am Sneaky Tricks
	Rob McMillan, AusCERT

10:30am	MORNING TEA

11:05am Large NT Roll-out
	Steve Jenkins/Ray Roche, GE Capital IT Solutions

11:55am	Questions.

12:05pm	Linux in a Commercial Environment
	Bradley Marshall, Plugged In Software

12:30pm	Questions.

12:35pm LUNCH

1:40pm	The Workflow of System Administration
	Geoff Halprin, The SysAdmin Group

2:20pm	Questions.

2:25pm  When in doubt, Log
	Chris Lambertus, University of California, Davis

3:15pm  Questions.

3:25pm	AFTERNOON TEA

3:55pm  WIP: "MTAs and Monkey Wrenches" Hub Communications
	Bruce Campbell

4:10pm  Panel Discussion: "System Administration Certification"
	David Conran (SAGE-AU Secretary)
	Barbara L. Dijker (SAGE-US Board member & Invited Speaker)
	Geoff Halprin (SAGE-AU Vice President)
	Marcus J. Ranum (Invited Speaker)

5:00pm	SAGE-AU Annual General Meeting.

6:30pm	AGM Close
7:00pm	Conference Dinner.

Friday, 10th July 1998 -  Conference Day #2


9:30am	An Approach to Global Service Provision
	David Sammut/Chris Levanes, CiTR Pty Ltd

10:05am	Questions.

10:10am Growing Pains: Scaling Systems and Sysadmins
	Kate Lance, Connect.com.au pty. ltd

10:35am	Questions.

10:40am	MORNING TEA

11:10am Planning & Deploying Large Scale Windows NT 	Servers for 
	Win95/WinNT clients
	Gavin Carmont, Bond University

12:00pm Questions.

12:10pm SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM
	Pauline van Winsen, Uniq Professional Services

12:50pm Questions.

12:55pm LUNCH

2:00pm  Application Management Middleware
	Paul Whittaker, Department of Defense

2:25pm  Questions

2:30pm	Inside Microsoft Networking
	Andrew Tridgell

2:55pm  Questions

3:00pm  Eddie (Essential Distributed Diagnostic and Information Engine)
	Rod Telford & Chris Miles, Connect.com.au

3:25pm 	Questions

3:30pm	AFTERNOON TEA

4:00pm 	Sendmail and DNS
	Barbara L. Dijker, NeTrack, Colorado

4:50pm 	Questions

5:00pm 	Conference Wrap-up


GENERAL INFORMATION

VENUE
Old Parliament House		Telephone: 	(02) 6273 2200
King George's Terrace,          Facsimile:      (02) 6273 5999
PARKES ACT 2600

REGISTRATION FEES
Tutorials        By 25 June After 25 June
Member-Half Day	    $110	$135
Member-Full Day	    $220	$270
Non Member-Half Day $140	$165
Non Member-Full Day $280	$330
Conference Registration 
SAGE-AU             $200	$250
Non-Members         $250	$300
Conference Dinner*  $50		$50

* One Conference dinner ticket included in full registrations.


TUTORIAL REGISTRATION FEE INCLUDES
The Tutorial fees allow you to attend pre-selected sessions and receive 
your session notes. Morning and afternoon coffees is included. Lunch is 
included for those who have registered for a full day of tutorial(s).

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FEE INCLUDES
The full registration fee covers attendance at all sessions, morning and 
afternoon coffees, luncheons on each day of the Conference and a
conference folder containing the conference final programme, delegate 
listing and a copy of the printed proceedings.

To encourage interstate attendees, SAGE-AU offers members a travel 
discount on registration for interstate travellers. The discounts will be 
$120 for attendees from Western Australia and Northern Territory.

People presenting a 30+ minute talk will receive free conference registration. 
People presenting a 15 minute talk (WIP) will receive a 50% discount on the
conference registration fees.
(Note: No tutorial discount)

CANCELLATION POLICY
Cancellations received in writing after 25th June, 1998 will forfeit 50% 
of registration fees. No refunds will be allowed past 3rd July, 1998, 
however substitutions will be accepted.

ACCOMMODATION
A number of limited group bookings have been made at the venues 
listed below.  These rates apply to accommodation booked prior to 
25th June, 1998.  Bookings made after that date are subject to 
availability and group rates cannot be guaranteed.  All costs are subject 
to change without notice.  As accommodation is limited at each venue, 
your requests will be allocated in order of receipt and according to 
your stated preferences.    

HOTEL			SINGLE		DBL/TWIN

Rydges Capital Hill	$150.00		$150.00
Canberra Avenue, FORREST

Hyatt Hotel Canberra	$175.00		$175.00
Commonwealth Avenue, YARRALUMLA

Macquarie Private Hotel	$ 30.00		Bed & Breakfast
18 National Circuit, BARTON

All rates are based on a per room per night basis and delegates are 
requested to settle their accounts on departure directly with the hotel 
concerned. 

Please note:  Any amendments or cancellations to hotel bookings are to 
be made with the Conference Secretariat up to and including 25th June 
1998.  After that time, amendments and cancellations are to be advised 
to the hotel direct.



DISCOUNTED AIR TRAVEL
CORPORATE TRAVELLER in conjunction with Ansett Australia, 
official airline for the SAGE-AU 98 Conference and Exhibition  is offering 
Delegates travelling to Canberra a 35% discount off the flexible full 
adult economy class airfare, or guaranteed cheapest fare of the day on 
any of Australia's domestic routes.

To take advantage of this great offer just call CORPORATE TRAVELLER 
toll free on 1800 676 871 from anywhere in Australia, ask to speak to 
Jennifer Jury and quote the Conference name.  Immediate faxed 
itinerary and free ticket delivery available.  Credit Card payments 
welcomed.

Conditions: The Conference name must be quoted.  Reservations subject to 'M' 
class availability.  Bookings can be made at any time, yet to ensure the best
deals available, bookings and full payment are recommended at least 30 days
prior to departure.  Payment is required within 3 days for bookings made less
than 30 days prior to deaprture.  Changes can be made to tickets subjects to
availability.

CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT
The Conference Secretariat is located in the Lobby of Old Parliament 
House.  Times for registration are as follows:

Onsite Registrations:
Monday 6 July		8am - 5.30pm for Tutorials Only
Tuesday 7 July		8am - 2.00pm for Tutorials Only
			3.00pm - 5.30pm for Conference
Wednesday 8 July	8.00am - 5.30pm
Thursday 9 July		8.00am - 5.30pm
Friday 10 July		8.00am - 5.30pm

CONFERENCE ENQUIRIES
Please direct all Conference and Exhibition enquiries to:
SAGE-AU 98 Secretariat,
P.O. Box 468, Paddington, NSW, 2021.
70 Glenmore Road, Paddington, NSW, 2021.
Telephone:  (02) 9332 4622 Facsimile:  (02) 9332 4066
E-mail: whfoda@acms.com..au

SPONSORS AND EXHIBITORS
The Organising Committee of SAGE-AU 98 Conference and 
Exhibition gratefully acknowledges the valuable and 
generous contribution given towards the event by the 
following organisations.

MAJOR SPONSORS

Connect.com.au
Digital Equipment Corporation,
DSTC (Distributed Systems Technology Centre),
Uniq Professional Services,
Sun Microsystems.

MINOR SPONSORS

AusCERT

INFORMATION DISCLAIMER
The speakers, topics and times are correct at the time of publishing and in the
event of unforeseen circumstances, the Conference Committee of SAGE-AU reserves
the right to alter or delete items from the Conference Programme. Current
Information, Changes and Errata will be listed at:
  http://www.sage-au.org.au/conf/

Each Delegate named herein, or their later substitute, accepts that the
Conference Committee of SAGE-AU, their agents, speakers, chairmen, secretariat
or any other persons ("the parties)" involved in the preparation of this
pamphlet or in the planning or presentation of the conference, do not accept
any contractual, tortious or other form of liability for loss or damage
suffered by the delegate or their later substitute relying on any statement
representation advice or opinion (whether true or otherwise, written or oral)
and whether due to the negligence of any of the said parties by this disclaimer
of liability to exclude liability, if any, for such statement representation
advice or opinion, and that the said party may rely on this disclaimer of
liability in the event of any demand claim suit or action brought against any
or all of them arising out of any statement representation advice or opinion.
The authors have prepared this material for Professional Development purposes.
Although they trust that it will be useful for this purpose, neither the
authors nor the the Conference Committee of SAGE-AU can warrant that the use of
this material, would be adequate to discharge the legal or professional
liability of members in the conduct of their practices

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                   SAGE-AU'98 REGISTRATION FORM
(One form per person - photocopies acceptable) PLEASE READ CAREFULLY

	Section A:   PARTICIPANT PERSONAL DETAILS

Surname____________________Initial_________First Name___________________________

Title (Dr/Mr/Mrs/Ms/Miss, etc)______Name for lapel badge________________________

Position________________________________________________________________________

Organisation____________________________________________________________________

Address______________________________Suburb_____________State_____Postcode______

Telephone: Business: (  ) ________Private: (  ) ________Facsimile: (  )_________

E-mail: (please print)__________________________________________________________

	Section B:    TUTORIAL PLANNING - CONCURRENT TUTORIALS

Tutorials: Tutorial attendance is limited.   Requests will be processed on a
first come first serve basis.  Please mark the tutorials within each group in
order of preference, starting with 1, so that you may be assured of a
productive session.

Monday, 6 July 1998			9:00 am - 12:30pm 1:30pm - 5:00pm
					T01  	[   ] 	  T03	[   ]
					T02 	[   ] 	  T04	[   ]

Tuesday, 7 July 1998	9:00am - 5:00pm	9:00 am - 12:30pm 1:30pm - 5:00pm
			T05  	[   ]	T06	[   ] 	  T07	[   ]

Wednesday, 8 July 1998	9:00am - 5:00pm	9:00 am - 12:30pm 1:30pm - 5:00pm
			T08	[   ]	T09  	[   ] 	  T10 	[   ]

	Section C:    ACCOMMODATION- Please make reservations for me as follows:

Arrival Date ____/____/98     Departure Date ____/____/98

			Sgl/Dbl		Single	Dbl/Twin Share with:		Amount
Rydges Capital Hill	$150.00		[    ]	[    ]	_______________	A$......
Hyatt Hotel Canberra	$175.00		[    ]	[    ]	_______________	A$......
Macquarie Private Hotel	$  30.00	[    ]	[    ]	_______________	A$......

	Section D:    PAYMENT OF FEES

Registration Fee		By June 25 1998	After June 25 1998
TUTORIALS
Member - Half Day Tutorial	$110.00		$135.00			A$......
Member - Full Day Tutorial	$220.00		$270.00			A$......
Non Member - Half Day Tutorial	$140.00		$165.00			A$......
Non Member - Full Day Tutorial	$280.00		$330.00			A$......

CONFERENCE REGISTRATIONS
Members of SAGE-AU		$ 200.00	$ 250.00		A$......
Non-Members			$ 250.00	$ 300.00		A$......

FOR ADDITIONAL PERSONS ONLY:
Date			Event			Cost (A$) No. Persons
Thursday  9 July	Conference Dinner*	$  55.00  ...........	A$......
* One ticket included in full registrations.
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Cheques payable to: SAGE-AU	TOTAL PAYMENT 		      A$
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Please charge my Credit Card: Bankcard (   )  Mastercard (   ) Visa (   )
Number:.........................................................................
Expires:................... Signature...........................................
Credit Card in name of:.........................................................

Please note that I would like: 	My meals to be:  Vegetarian [ ] Other:..........
				My name and details witheld from the Conference
				Sponsors:  [    ]

NOTE:  This Registration Form serves as an invoice. Registrations accompanied
by total payment only will be processed in order of receipt. Please return this
form, plus your cheque/payment to:

SAGE-AU 98 Conference and Exhibition
P.O. Box 468, Paddington.
N.S.W.  2021. Australia. 	TEL:  (02) 9332 4622   FAX:  (02) 9332 4066
70 Glenmore Road, Paddington
NSW  2021			E-mail: whfoda@acms.com.au
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