Handling User Accounts in Samba

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

In this third part to a four-part series on handling authentication and authorization in Samba you will learn about username maps account utilities and more. It is excerpted from chapter five of em Using Samba Third Edition em written by Gerald Carter ...

Security and User Experience

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

A post entitled SmugMug's Private Pics Are Public caught my eye yesterday. The news doesn't sound too surprising, since these types of security problems aren't at all uncommon, but Don (SmugMug's CEO) is a friend of mine, and I know he takes security v...

Google Considers Adding User Voting To Search

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

There was a time when seemingly everyone was adding Digg-like voting to some of their products and services: Dell, Yahoo, Microsoft. Now, a bit late to the game, Google follows suit by adding user voting to their search results. The feature is currently in experimental phase and it may not ...

Finishing the PyMailGUI Client: User Help Tools

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

In this conclusion to a six-part series you will learn about the user help tools that come with the PyMailGUI client and more. This article is excerpted from chapter 15 of the book em Programming Python Third Edition em written by Mark Lutz ...

Validating User Input with the Strategy Pattern

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

The strategy design pattern is applied much more often than you might think so if you want to find out how to implement it with PHP 5 this article should guide you through the whole learning process. Welcome to the final installment of the series that began with ...

User Authentication and PHP Security

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

So far we have covered security vulnerabilities that involve form data databases and file systems. In this article we are going to look at authentication and the security issues around it. We will also look at some of the most common attacks in this field.... InSpec Software Review Management Tool ...

More Hacks for the User Environment in BSD

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

In this article the third and last of a series you ll learn how to customize a BSD environment for other users maintain your chosen environment on multiple machines and more. It is excerpted from chapter one of the book em BSD Hacks em ...

Personalizing the User Environment in BSD

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

In this second part of a three-part article you ll learn a few more ways to personalize the user environment in BSD such as adding some fun trivia setting up a trash directory and locking down your screen. It is excerpted from chapter one of the ...

Customizing the User Environment in BSD

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

If you use an open source operating system you probably have a few favorite hacks that you like to apply to make things run more smoothly. This article the first of three parts focuses on some good hacks for customizing the user environment. It is excerpted from ...

User Management in a PHP Invoicing System

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

In this fourth and final article covering the creation of a PHP invoicing system we re going to put together the user management section. In this section we will be able to view all available users and do all the associated things like deleting or updating user details. We ...

Oracle 10G XE User Management 101

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

If you re a DBA one of your basic tasks involves managing users dropping adding and changing permissions. Even if you aren t a DBA if you use a database you may find it helpful to know the tasks that a DBA performs. This ...

MySQL User Account Management

Monday, July 24th, 2006

Last week we began our discussion of MySQL database security. This week we continue that discussion with user account management. The second of several parts this article is excerpted from chapter 12 of the em MySQL 5. Certification Guide em written by ...

Managing MySQL User Accounts

Friday, June 16th, 2006

If you need to administer MySQL this article gets you off to a good start. In this section we discuss MySQL user account management. The fourth of a multi-part series it is excerpted from chapter four of the book em MySQL Administrator s Guide em ...

User Group Tour

Monday, September 26th, 2005

I'll be speaking at NYPHP tomorrow night (Tue, 27 Sep 2005). Directions and other details are available on the web site. If you're in (or near) New York, I hope you'll join us. I'm also going to be speaking at BostonPHP next week (Thu, 06 Oct 2005). I...