About the Author

   


Bob Toxen counts his recognition as one of the 162 developers of Berkeley UNIX among his accomplishments during eight years of Linux experience and 28 years of UNIX experience. As an undergraduate there in the late 1970s, he learned about security by breaking into the UNIX systems, successfully evading such system administrators as Jeff Schriebmann, Bill Joy, and Bob Kridle; they later founded UniSoft, Sun, and Mt. Xinu. He was one of the four developers who did the initial port of UNIX to the Silicon Graphics hardware and has hacked the kernel of a C2-compliant secure UNIX system.

Bob was the architect of the client/server system that NASA's Kennedy Space Center uses to communicate with the 3000 PCs used to store and retrieve the 900 GB of documents pertaining to Space Shuttle Payloads. He was the UNIX System Administrator for the Americas Computer Center for one of the world's largest shipping companies and was the architect for the server controlling a popular Linux-based Network Disk appliance. He wrote "The Problem Solver" column for UNIX Review magazine and has given many classes on Linux and UNIX.

Bob lives in Atlanta, GA, where he is president of Fly-By-Day Consulting, Inc., which offers consulting services in Linux security, providing Linux-based firewalls, VPNs, and T1/E1 routers, monitoring services, system administration and networking, porting, and general C programming.


       
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    Real World Linux Security Prentice Hall Ptr Open Source Technology Series
    Real World Linux Security Prentice Hall Ptr Open Source Technology Series
    ISBN: N/A
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    Year: 2002
    Pages: 260

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