[wplug] slightly OT: skype

Fri Dec 10 13:21:51 EST 2004

I'm doing a piece for the P-G on Skype. Does anyone
here use it, or know someone who does and who would be
willing to talk about it? If so, please respond
offlist. Thanks!

Elwin Green
Staff Writer/Business
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
(412) 263-1969
egreen at post-gazette.com
http://www.post-gazette.com

sDoes anyone here use Skype? 
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>    1. [wplug-announce] Tutorial: Linux Kernels Dec
> 11 10am-3pm	NSH
>       1507 (Beth Lynn)
>    2. double-authentication for IMAP and SMTP-AUTH
> (Brandon Kuczenski)
>    3. Re: double-authentication for IMAP and
> SMTP-AUTH (Tom Rhodes)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 20:28:09 -0500 (EST)
> From: Beth Lynn <bethlynn at wplug.org>
> Subject: [wplug] [wplug-announce] Tutorial: Linux
> Kernels Dec 11
> 	10am-3pm	NSH 1507
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> Hello,
> 
> Western PA Linux Users Group will be hosting a
> tutorial featuring Linux 
> Kernel Configuration. It will be held on this
> Saturday December 11, 2004 
> from 10am to 3pm at Carnegie Mellon University,
> Newell Simon Hall 1507.
> This meeting is free and open to the general public.
> 
> Please visit our new Maps and Directions page
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> 268 7564
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> Tutorial Topic: 
> Speaker: Rick Farina and Ted Rodgers
> Host: David Ostroske
> CoHost: Bill Moran
> 
> Topic:
> Kernel Tutorial including brief history of the
> kernel and why you would
> want to compile your own. After showing reasons why
> to configure and
> compile your own kernel a complete walk-through will
> be shown including
> various different methods of configuring.  If
> interested in following
> along, please feel free to bring your own computer
> and be sure to download
> kernel sources for 2.6.9 from www.kernel.org (as
> these are the sources 
> used for the presentation). Be sure that you have at
> least ncurses 
> installed, and if you would like to use the X
> configuration options you 
> will require either GTK and Tcl/Tk or QT libraries
> installed.
> 
> Bringing your own computer is encouraged but not
> required. Please be sure 
> to bring your own monitor, keyboard, mouse, power
> cables, etc. Note that 
> this is *not a lan party* therefore we will not be
> providing an Internet 
> connection.
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> Notice:
> During the lunch break we will be allowing any
> interested parties to join
> the Bylaws Committee and/or the
> Nominations/Elections Committee. These 
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> to schedule their next 
> business meetings respectively. If you are
> interested but you can not 
> attend on Saturday please send mail to
> bethlynn at wplug.org
> 
> Schedule
> * Doors will open at 10am to NSH 1507
> * Coffee and Donut Hour 10am-11am
> * Kernel talk 11am-Noon
> * Geeks Eating Pizza Noon-ish - 1pm
> * Bylaw Committee and Nomination/Election committee
> meetings 12:30
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> * General Socialization 2pm-3pm in NSH 1507
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> See you there!
> 
> Beth Lynn
> 
> upcoming events...
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> ------------------------------
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 20:16:18 -0500 (EST)
> From: Brandon Kuczenski <brandon at 301south.net>
> Subject: [wplug] double-authentication for IMAP and
> SMTP-AUTH
> To: WPLUG <wplug at wplug.org>
> Message-ID:
> <20041209200521.F23072 at ocean.301south.net>
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> 
> I'm [eternally] trying to get IMAP working on my
> system here, and the big
> problem (as per our discussion a few weeks ago) is
> SMTP AUTH.  Now, it
> seems like everyone in the world uses SASL for
> authentication, but SASL
> seems to literally not work for any other
> application ever, except for
> Cyrus IMAP.
> 
> Apart from the question of why things were done this
> way, how do folks
> here who are running IMAP servers handle the problem
> of the user having to
> authenticate twice, once to send mail and once to
> connect to the IMAP
> server?  Do you maintain two separate but equivalent
> password databases?
> Use LDAP?  That seems overkill for a system with
> three users.
> 
> Also: I am thinking of adding more users and I would
> like them to be able
> to use IMAP and SMTP AUTH with different passwords
> than their
> shell-account passwords.  This is mostly so that I
> don't hve to give out
> shell account access, except it raises the question
> of how they are to
> change (or set, for that matter) their IMAP
> passwords.
> 
> Bill [Moran]: I recall you said you were using the
> Dovecot IMAP server, as
> well as Postfix, as am I -- how do you handle
> authentication issues?
> 
> -Brandon
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 20:31:36 -0500
> From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes at FreeBSD.org>
> Subject: Re: [wplug] double-authentication for IMAP
> and SMTP-AUTH
> To: General user list <wplug at wplug.org>
> Message-ID: <20041209203136.1d5bda28 at localhost>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
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> On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 20:16:18 -0500 (EST)
> Brandon Kuczenski <brandon at 301south.net> wrote:
> 
> > I'm [eternally] trying to get IMAP working on my
> system 
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