On Wednesday 02 January 2008, Joe Apuzzo wrote:
> Chris Knadle wrote:
> > On Wednesday 02 January 2008, Joe Apuzzo wrote:
> >> Would you be up to learning about "applied security" and presenting
> >> that? A talk on how to implement security systems for everyday use like
> >> AppArmor etc?
> >>
> >> Let us know ;-)
> >
> >    I take it you mean "go away" via "that's the voice of a volunteer". 
> > :-P
>
> No it's just that the same people should not always give the talks aka
> we need fresh faces and new speakers to keep the LUG fresh.

   Heheh okay.  I'm with ya there.

> >    And if I *did* have a working laptop, I think a better presentation
> > for me to focus on was the "building kernels the Debian way" talk idea I
> > posted, which would be something that would cover some of the requests
> > for talks that people had.
>
> I'm sure someone ( if not I ) could lend you a laptop to use for the
> presentation. In which case we could do a tag team, as in you send me
> the prez and your requirements and I will set that up in advance.

   Okay, I'll see if I can get a presentation together.  Even if it doesn't 
become a full presentation it'll be useful for a 5-min lightning talk.

> >    The *reason* I asked about whether you were discussing AppArmor is
> > that somebody on the Nylug list is having a problem with a USB printer
> > such that AppArmor in Ubuntu seems to be denying cupsd access to
> > /dev/tty.
...
> Ubuntu 7.10 introduces an additional security layer called AppArmor,
> whose support for CUPS printing is not yet complete. This will result in
> printing failures in certain corner cases described below. The
> workaround in each of these cases is to disable the AppArmor CUPS
> profile by running sudo aa-complain cupsd. AppArmor support may be
> re-enabled by running sudo aa-enforce cupsd.

   Cool...  I'll pass the info along [and give you credit].  Thanks!

> It's just too much of a cluge at this point and would distract from the
> reset of the talk.

   Agreed.  Wasn't trying to do that.  When I asked if you were discussing 
it "by chance", I meant that I wasn't expecting that you were.

   -- Chris

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