Training

It's almost like vacation. Doing the Training this week, checking out the various services and security issues that confront your everyday Linux admin. For example, there's "Creating your own Certificate Authority in 2 easy steps":

1. openssl genrsa -new something-or-other blah
2. make thisthinghere && then that otherthing

Easier than it looks, I tell you, I'm gonna ace this exam.

And then there's some stuff you put into /etc/hosts.allow. Or hosts.deny. The kids today apparently like to put them all in file, so they can more finely tune the filtering order. In that case, you get rules like, "*.cracker.org: ALL: DENY" in hosts.allow, which is confusing for an old-timer like me, who remembers when if it didn't run under inetd you didn't need it, anway, now get off my lawn.

Poking ever more knowledge into my age- and alcohol-addled brain may sound like a risky proposition. But The Company can be assured that, as long as free food is involved, I will make whatever efforts are necessary. And there is free food involved here.