Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society
CACTUS Newsletter

Volume 23, Number 6 - June 2007

Next Meeting
Metasploit Framework H D Moore Thursday, June 21, 7:00 PM

The CACTUS Newsletter is a monthly publication, distributed to our members and other interested people. Visit the CACTUS Newsletter on the web at http://www.cactus.org/CACTUS/Newsletter/. There you will find archives of back issues, as well as instructions on how to subscribe to the e-mail distribution. We welcome newsletter submissions by our members. Please contact newsletter [at] cactus <dot> org for more information.

June Meeting Program

H D Moore founded the Metasploit Project in July of 2003 with the goal of providing useful information to people who perform penetration testing, IDS signature development, and exploit research.

He will be giving a talk introducing version 3.0 of the Metasploit Framework and demonstrating point-and-click exploits for various different clients.

The next CACTUS meeting will be held on Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 7:00 PM (doors open at 6:30 PM for pizza and informal discussion), at Mangia Pizza at the corner of Burnet Rd./Mopac service road and Gracy Farms Ln. (See end of newsletter for directions to the facility).

May Meeting Report

by Ron Roberts

President Randy Zagar noted that he saw a lot of unfamilar faces at the meeting. Attendance was good.

Randy announced that our scribe of record, Don Kassebaum died on May 5th. Someone else mentioned that Jim Westbrook also died recently. MH Khan was nominated to replace Don as webmaster. He was elected without opposition. No one volunteered to server as scribe.

The group retroactively approved the link to the Austin Linux Users Group recently added by the previous scribe. Somone else suggested that we remove the sponsorship for UT ARL. There was general agreement, and MH would make it so.

Program chair Brad Knowles introduced the speaker for the evening: Neil Wilson from Sun MicroSystems [tm]. A visitor asked permission to record the presentation; no one objected.

Neil is the architect for Sun's Open Directory Services (OpenDS). He was more than willing to talk about more than that. He began by selling Sun's comittment to open source. He listed many different projects and Sun's Linux offerings. He also noted the GNU Open Solaris project and an Ubuntu variant running on a Solaris kernel.

OpenDS is a complete rewrite of LDAP in java [tm]. Neil explained that Sun still sells IPlanet, their industrial strength LDAP, but they wanted to provide an alternative to OpenLDAP to the open source community. Sun has drafted a new open source license based on the Mozilla Public License, version 1.1 ("MPL"), called the Common Development and Distribution License ("CDDL"). Neil provided the following link:

https://www.opends.org/

Thanks to Mangia Pizza for the hospitality, and Neil Wilson from Sun for the excellent presentation.

Membership Report

by Mark Scarborough

CACTUS would love to put your name here as our newest member. Please come join us!

To renew your membership, please send check or money order payable to CACTUS ($30/yr for regular membership and $100/yr for corporate sponsorship):

CACTUS
PO BOX 9786
Austin, TX 78766-9786

You can also pay in person at the general meetings. Please direct any inquiries or address changes to membership [at] cactus <dot> org.

CACTUS Officers

President:: Randy Zagar (jrzagar [at] cactus <dot> org)

Treasurer:: Johnny Long (longjy [at] cactus <dot> org)

Programs Chair:: Brad Knowles (knowles [at] cactus <dot> org)

Membership:: Mark Scarborough (mscar-cactus [at] cactus <dot> org)

Publicity & Webmaster:: Lindsay Haisley (fmouse [at] fmp <dot> com)

Newsletter:: Ron Roberts (ronr [at] cactus <dot> org)

Scribe:: Don Kassebaum (dak [at] cactus <dot> org)

Members at Large:: Gil Kloepfer ( kloepfer [at] cactus <dot> org); Larry Rosenman (ler [at] cactus <dot> org)

CACTUS Sponsors

Significant Contributing Sponsors

Applied Research Laboratories/University of Texas at Austin: (Gil Kloepfer, Computer Science Division (CSD), 835-3771, gilc [at] arlut <dot> utexas <dot> edu)

CoreNAP, L.P.: (Kenneth Smith, (512) 685-0010, kenneth [at] corenap <dot> com); Provides server colocation and high-speed Internet access to businesses in the Austin and central Texas area

Newisys, Inc.: (Tim Wood, (512) 340-9050, tim <dot> wood [at] newisys <dot> com); Development of enterprise-class servers

Onramp: (Chad Kissinger, president, 322-9200, info [at] onr <dot> com); Broadband Internet access, web design and colocation

Outserv.net, Inc.: (David Maynard, dpm [at] outserv <dot> net); e-Business Operations Service Provider

Friends of CACTUS

Applied Formal Methods, Inc.: (Susan Gerhart, 794-9732, gerhart [at] cactus <dot> org)

Auspex Systems: (Paul Levine, plevine [at] auspex <dot> com); Fastest reliable network fileservers

Austin Code Works: (Scott Guthery, 258-0785, info [at] acw <dot> com)

BestRegistrar.com: ((800) 977-3475, registrar [at] bestregistrar <dot> com); A top-level domain name registrar, CORE member

Covad/Laserlink: (Chip Rosenthal)

CTG: (Maurine Mecer, 502-0190 (FAX 502-0287)); Professional recruiting

Compaq Computer Corporation (now HP): (Ron Boerger, 432-8000); Provider of scalable, high availbility systems

EDP Contract Services: (Mark Grabenhorst, 346-1040); Professional recruiting

Hewlett Packard: (Bill Sumrall, 338-7221)

Hounix: (Marilyn Harper); Houston's Unix Users Group

Network Appliance Corporation: (Frank Mozina, fmozina [at] netapp <dot> com)

O'Keefe Search: (John O'Keefe, john [at] okeefesearch <dot> com, 512-658-9224 or 888-446-2137); Professional recuiting

Rocksteady Networks, Inc.: (Eric White, 512-427-1319, ewhite [at] rocksteady <dot> com)

Sailaway System Design: (Chris J Johnson, 447-5243)

Schlumberger: (Kathy O'Brien, obrien [at] asc <dot> slb <dot> com); Technical services and products in over 100 countries

Silicon Graphics: (Don Williams, 346-9342)

Solid Systems: (Pete Farrell, 442-2222)

Sterling Infomation Group: (Darrell Hanshaw, 344-1005)

Sun Microsystems: (Rick Taylor); Supplier of Unix client-server computing solutions

Texas Internet Consulting: (Smoot Carl-Mitchell, 451-6176, smoot [at] tic <dot> com); TCP/IP networking, Unix, and open systems standards

Technow: A Sun Authorized Training Center and a Hardware Reseller

Unison Software: (Shelley St. John, 478-0611); Supplier of networked systems management solutions

UT Computer Science Department: (Patti Spencer)

UT Computation Center: (Mike Cerda, 471-3241, cerda [at] uts <dot> cc <dot> utexas <dot> edu)

Directions to Meeting Location

CACTUS meets on the third Thursday of each month at the Mangia Pizza (Gracy Farms location):

Mangia Pizza - Gracy Farms
12,001 Burnet Road at Gracy Farms Ln.
Austin, TX 78758
(512) 832-5550
http://www.mangiapizza.com/33/Gracy_Farms.html

This location is approximately 2 miles north of our previous meeting location at ARL. Note that the Mapquest map on Mangia's web site is slightly wrong.

Mangia pizza is on the north-east corner of the Mopac service road and Gracy Farms Ln.

From 183 north of Duval Rd.:: Take the Duval Rd. exit on 183 and turn left onto Duval Rd. When you get to the intersection of Mopac (Loop 1) and Duval Rd., make the left turn as though you were going to get onto Mopac North (this is Gracy Farms Ln.). You will see Mangia Pizza in front of you to the left at the traffic light. Turn left and then make an immediate right turn into the little store cluster.

From 183 south:: Take the Burnet Rd. exit on 183 and head toward UT Applied Research Labs (ARL) as you would normally. Instead of going to ARL, continue on Burnet Rd. In approximately 2 miles, Burnet Rd. will fork - to the left will be Duval Rd. continuing straight will bring you to a traffic light (at Gracy Farms Ln.). You should see Mangia Pizza on your right. Continue through the traffic light and make a right turn into the store cluster.

From Mopac:: Exit at Duval Rd./Burnet Rd. From the south, continue on the service road. Continue straight at the traffic light to the next traffic light just a little bit further up. You will see Mangia Pizza in front of you to the left at the traffic light. Turn left and then make an immediate right turn into the little store cluster.; From the north, make a left turn onto Duval Rd./Burnet Rd. and then an immediate left turn (as though you were going to make a U-turn back onto Mopac) and there will be another traffic light where you will see Mangia Pizza in front of you to the left. Turn left and then make an immediate right turn into the little store cluster.

Note: If you pass Mangia Pizza, there is a U-turn on the left just a little past the store cluster. Follow the directions for Mopac coming from the north.

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