About

Jeremy Moskowitz

Thomas Boutell

Copyright 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey

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ISBN-13: 978-0-7821-4428-6

ISBN-10: 0-7821-4428-6

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Credits

Acquisitions and Developmental Editor
Tom Cirtin

Technical Editor
Bill Boswell

Production Editor
Elizabeth Campbell

Copy Editor
Sally Engelfried

Production Manager
Tim Tate

Vice President & Executive Group Publisher
Richard Swadley

Vice President and Publisher
Neil Edde

Vice President and Publisher
Joseph B. Wikert

Book Designer
Judy Fung

Compositor
Craig Woods, Happenstance Type-O-Rama

Illustrator
Jeffrey Wilson, Happenstance Type-O-Rama

Proofreader
Nancy Riddiough

Indexer
Nancy Guenther

Cover Designer and Illustrator
John Nedwidek, Emdesign

For all the women in my life who taught me that it's best to play nicely with others.

Jeremy Moskowitz

For Eleanor, my daughter

Tom Boutell

Acknowledgements

I wish to thank Ernie Coats, Rocco Caputo, Corprew Reed, and Ronan Waide for their technical insight as well as their friendship. Thanks also to the Immortal Legion of the Divine Order of Good Eggs: Lindsay, Jill, Brian, Mark, Katie, Mary, Lindsay, Jon, and honorary members Alisa, Amanda and Shelle. Thanks to Eleanor for patience above and beyond the call of a six-year-old, and to Michele for flexible parenting schedules. Thanks always to my brother, my sister and my mother for going the journey with me, and to my late father for a lifetime of love and support. And, of course, many thanks to Jeremy for his friendship and for focusing my energies in a challenging year.

Tom Boutell

I want to first thank my assistant Jon, for tirelessly taking on tasks (book related, business related and personal related) that mere- mortals simply couldn't do. Jon, you're a prince, and I'm glad to have you aboard. I'd like to thank the people who were simply "there for me" during this huge undertaking: Alisa, Jill, Beccah, and Mom & Dad. I particularly want to thank Tom for his tireless contributions, amazing ego-free abilities to watch his material get modified, rewritten or cut, and simply taking the quality time each example needed to make it as best as it could possibly be. You did an amazing job-both at writing the book, and eating more of my wheat thins than should humanly be possible during a weekend . In all, you're a wonderful friend, and I'm honored to have worked alongside you and called you my co-author and continually call you my friend.

Jeremy Moskowitz

This book owes its existence to the tireless efforts of thousands of open source innovators and also to the dedicated folks at Microsoft. We particularly wish to thank Gerald Carter and Jeremy Allison of the Samba project and Alan DeKok of the FreeRADIUS project. Additional thanks to the folks within Microsoft for genuinely taking an interest in our book and helping us make it our best: Patrick O'Rourke, Jason Zions, Rik Wright, Jackson Shaw (now at Vintela), Jon Reese, Jay Paulus, Gaurav Daga, Dan Boldo, and more.

Bill Boswell's contributions as technical editor improved this book to an enormous degree. You are a super-brain with super-style and super-powers. Thank you, Bill. Thank you to Tom Cirtin, Elizabeth Campbell, and Sally Engelfried within Sybex for once again helping take our book's vision and making it a tangible reality. Thank you to everyone inside Sybex and Wiley for being behind us, working with us and championing our cause in such a huge effort.

Jeremy and Tom