19. LISA 2005: San Diego, California, USA

Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Systems Administration (LISA 2005), December 4-9, 2005, San Diego, California, USA. USENIX 2005 BibTeX

Opening Remarks, Awards, Keynote

Qi Lu:
Keynote Address: Scaling Search Beyond the Public Web.
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Vulnerabilities

Matt Selsky, Daniel Medina:
GULP: A Unified Logging Architecture for Authentication Data. 1-5
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Chaos Golubitsky:
Toward an Automated Vulnerability Comparison of Open Source IMAP Servers (Awarded Best Student Paper!). 9-22
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Yi-Min Wang, Doug Beck:
Fast User-Mode Rootkit Scanner for the Enterprise. 23-30
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Configuration Management Theory

Paul Anderson, Edmund Smith:
Configuration Tools: Working Together. 31-37
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Narayan Desai, Rick Bradshaw, Scott Matott, Sandra Bittner, Susan Coghlan, Rémy Evard, Cory Lueninghoener, Ti Leggett, John-Paul Navarro, Gene Rackow, Craig Stacey, Tisha Stacey:
A Case Study in Configuration Management Tool Deployment. 39-46
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Shaya Potter, Jason Nieh:
Reducing Downtime Due to System Maintenance and Upgrades (Awarded Best Student Paper!). 47-62
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Configuration Management Practice

Anton Schultschik:
About the Integration of Mac OS X Devices into a Centrally Managed UNIX Environment. 63-71
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Brent ByungHoon Kang, Vikram Sharma, Pratik Thanki:
RegColl: Centralized Registry Framework for Infrastructure System Management. 73-82
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Maarten Thibaut, Wout Mertens:
Herding Cats: Managing a Mobile UNIX Platform. 83-88
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Networking

Bruce Campbell, Robyn Landers:
Open Network Administrator (ONA) - A Web-based Network Management Tool. 89-101
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Robert M. Marmorstein, Phil Kearns:
An Open Source Solution for Testing NAT'd and Nested iptables Firewalls. 103-112
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Evan Hughes, Anil Somayaji:
Towards Network Awareness. 113-124
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Theory

Alva L. Couch, Ning Wu, Hengky Susanto:
Toward a Cost Model for System Administration (Awarded Best Paper!). 125-141
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Mark Burgess, Kyrre M. Begnum:
Voluntary Cooperation in Pervasive Computing Services. 143-154
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Sanjai Narain:
Network Configuration Management via Model Finding. 155-168
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Network Visualization

William Yurcik:
Visualizing NetFlows for Security at Line Speed: The SIFT Tool Suite. 169-176
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Cristian Estan, Garret Magin:
Interactive Traffic Analysis and Visualization with Wisconsin Netpy. 177-184
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Seong Soo Kim, A. L. Narasimha Reddy:
NetViewer: A Network Traffic Visualization and Analysis Tool. 185-196
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Tools

Eben M. Haber, Eser Kandogan, Allen Cypher, Paul P. Maglio, Rob Barrett:
A1: Spreadsheet-based Scripting for Developing Web Tools. 197-208
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Thomas A. Limoncelli:
Hostdb: The Best Damn host2DNS/DHCP Script Ever Written. 209-223
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Jonathan Adams, David Bustos, Stephen Hahn, David Powell, Liane Praza:
Solaris Service Management Facility: Modern System Startup and Administration. 225-236
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Access Control

James Deverick, Phil Kearns:
Towards a Deep-Packet-Filter Toolkit for Securing Legacy Resources. 237-248
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Rakeshbabu Bobba, Serban I. Gavrila, Virgil D. Gligor, Himanshu Khurana, Radostina K. Koleva:
Administering Access Control in Dynamic Coalitions. 249-261
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Jon Finke:
Manage People, Not Userids. 263-277
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Work-in-Progress Reports (WiPS)

Invited Talks

Bdale Garbee:
Computing on Amateur Satellites.
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Dan Kaminsky:
Network Black Ops: Extracting Unexpected Functionality from Existing Networks.
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Thomas A. Limoncelli:
What Big Sites Can Learn from Little Sites.
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Garrett Wollman:
Building MIT's Stata Center: An IT Perspective.
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Strata Rose Chalup:
Under 200: Applying IS Best Practices to Small Companies.
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Radia J. Perlman:
What's a PKI, Why Would I Want One, and How Should it Be Designed?
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Andrew Cowie:
Modern Trends in UNIX and Linux Infrastructure Management.
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Brent Chapman:
Incident Command for IT: What We Can Learn from the Fire Department.
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Monica Lam:
Automatic PC Desktop Management with Virtualization Technology.
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Peyton Engel:
What's the Worst That Could Happen?
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Lance Cottrell:
Internet Counter-Intelligence: Offense and Defense.
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Paul Vixie:
Preventing Child Neglect in DNSSECbis Using Lookaside Validation (DLV).
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Kevin Bankston:
How Sysadmins Can Protect Free Speech and Privacy on the Electronic Frontier.
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Michael H. Warfield:
Wireless Security.
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Jonas Luster:
Weblogs, Wikis, and RSS for System Administrators.
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Michael R. Crusoe:
Using Your Body for Authentication: A Biometrics Guide for System Administrators.
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Terry Slattery:
Silly Network Management Tricks.
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Plenary Session

Matt Blaze:
Picking Locks with Cryptology.
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Guru Sessions

W. Curtis Preston: Backups. BibTeX
Howard Chu: LDAP. BibTeX
Douglas Hughes: Spam. BibTeX
Esther Filderman: AFS. BibTeX
Gerald Carter: Samba. BibTeX
Robert Sparks: VoIP. BibTeX
Strata Rose Chalup: Project Management. BibTeX
Thomas Limoncelli: Time Management. BibTeX
Gene Kim: Change Management. BibTeX
Gregory G. Rose: Security/Cryptography. BibTeX
Ben Laurie: Apache/OpenSSL/DNSSEC. BibTeX
Jordan Hubbard: Mac OS X. BibTeX
Bryan Cantrill, Daniel Price, Liane Praza: Solaris 10: System/DTrace/Zones/SMF. BibTeX
John Arrasjid, John Gannon: Virtualization. BibTeX