19. LISA 2005: San Diego, California, USA
Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Systems Administration (LISA 2005), December 4-9, 2005, San Diego, California, USA. USENIX 2005
Opening Remarks, Awards, Keynote
Qi Lu: Keynote Address: Scaling Search Beyond the Public Web.
Vulnerabilities

Chaos Golubitsky: Toward an Automated Vulnerability Comparison of Open Source IMAP Servers (Awarded Best Student Paper!). 9-22
Configuration Management Theory

Narayan Desai, Rick Bradshaw, Scott Matott, Sandra Bittner, Susan Coghlan, Rémy Evard, Cory Lueninghoener, Ti Leggett, John-Paul Navarro, Gene Rackow, Craig Stacey, Tisha Stacey: A Case Study in Configuration Management Tool Deployment. 39-46
Shaya Potter, Jason Nieh: Reducing Downtime Due to System Maintenance and Upgrades (Awarded Best Student Paper!). 47-62
Configuration Management Practice
Anton Schultschik: About the Integration of Mac OS X Devices into a Centrally Managed UNIX Environment. 63-71
Brent ByungHoon Kang, Vikram Sharma, Pratik Thanki: RegColl: Centralized Registry Framework for Infrastructure System Management. 73-82
Networking
Bruce Campbell, Robyn Landers: Open Network Administrator (ONA) - A Web-based Network Management Tool. 89-101
Robert M. Marmorstein, Phil Kearns: An Open Source Solution for Testing NAT'd and Nested iptables Firewalls. 103-112
Theory
Alva L. Couch, Ning Wu, Hengky Susanto: Toward a Cost Model for System Administration (Awarded Best Paper!). 125-141
Sanjai Narain: Network Configuration Management via Model Finding. 155-168
Network Visualization
William Yurcik: Visualizing NetFlows for Security at Line Speed: The SIFT Tool Suite. 169-176
Cristian Estan, Garret Magin: Interactive Traffic Analysis and Visualization with Wisconsin Netpy. 177-184
Seong Soo Kim, A. L. Narasimha Reddy: NetViewer: A Network Traffic Visualization and Analysis Tool. 185-196
Tools
Eben M. Haber, Eser Kandogan, Allen Cypher, Paul P. Maglio, Rob Barrett: A1: Spreadsheet-based Scripting for Developing Web Tools. 197-208
Thomas A. Limoncelli: Hostdb: The Best Damn host2DNS/DHCP Script Ever Written. 209-223
Jonathan Adams, David Bustos, Stephen Hahn, David Powell, Liane Praza: Solaris Service Management Facility: Modern System Startup and Administration. 225-236
Access Control
James Deverick, Phil Kearns: Towards a Deep-Packet-Filter Toolkit for Securing Legacy Resources. 237-248
Rakeshbabu Bobba, Serban I. Gavrila, Virgil D. Gligor, Himanshu Khurana, Radostina K. Koleva: Administering Access Control in Dynamic Coalitions. 249-261
Jon Finke: Manage People, Not Userids. 263-277
Work-in-Progress Reports (WiPS)
Invited Talks
Bdale Garbee: Computing on Amateur Satellites.
Dan Kaminsky: Network Black Ops: Extracting Unexpected Functionality from Existing Networks.
Thomas A. Limoncelli: What Big Sites Can Learn from Little Sites.
Garrett Wollman: Building MIT's Stata Center: An IT Perspective.
Strata Rose Chalup: Under 200: Applying IS Best Practices to Small Companies.
Radia J. Perlman: What's a PKI, Why Would I Want One, and How Should it Be Designed?
Andrew Cowie: Modern Trends in UNIX and Linux Infrastructure Management.
Brent Chapman: Incident Command for IT: What We Can Learn from the Fire Department.
Monica Lam: Automatic PC Desktop Management with Virtualization Technology.
Peyton Engel: What's the Worst That Could Happen?
Lance Cottrell: Internet Counter-Intelligence: Offense and Defense.
Paul Vixie: Preventing Child Neglect in DNSSECbis Using Lookaside Validation (DLV).
Kevin Bankston: How Sysadmins Can Protect Free Speech and Privacy on the Electronic Frontier.
Michael H. Warfield: Wireless Security.
Jonas Luster: Weblogs, Wikis, and RSS for System Administrators.
Michael R. Crusoe: Using Your Body for Authentication: A Biometrics Guide for System Administrators.
Terry Slattery: Silly Network Management Tricks.
Plenary Session
Matt Blaze: Picking Locks with Cryptology.
Guru Sessions
W. Curtis Preston: Backups.
Howard Chu: LDAP.
Douglas Hughes: Spam.
Esther Filderman: AFS.
Gerald Carter: Samba.
Robert Sparks: VoIP.
Strata Rose Chalup: Project Management.
Thomas A. Limoncelli: Time Management.
Gene Kim: Change Management.
Gregory G. Rose: Security/Cryptography.
Ben Laurie: Apache/OpenSSL/DNSSEC.
Jordan Hubbard: Mac OS X.




