4.15.10 by Nathaniel Bibler
Back at FOWA Miami, Thomas Meeks and I found ourselves hopped up on Cuban coffee in the early hours of the morning. Feeling thoroughly anti-social – and really, who wants to see a nerd at 4am – we decided to finally sit down and solve a problem that had been lingering around the office for a while. How do we efficiently manage user accounts for all of our employees across all of our clients’ servers? And, should something happen, how do we easily revoke those privileges if and when the time comes?
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8.5.09 by Thomas Meeks
A little background
Unix administrators have been dealing with the same problems for a long, long time. Users and programs contending for resources, outside attackers trying to get in, crashing services. You name it. There are a lot of excellent utilities out there to handle all of these issues. Unfortunately, they go mostly unused.
Ever have an application, of any language, eat up memory or disk space to the point of slowing the entire system to a crawl? Seen a security breach in one web application compromise a whole server? Had a server encounter performance problems that seem to disappear by the time you make it into top? I’ve joined a number of projects where problems like these are constant, nagging issues. They really don’t need to be.
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