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 -- Chris Knadle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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