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"How I Lost 1180 Seconds" or "Putting S.DS Code on a Diet" – Part 1
(Note: this is the first of a 4 part post). In previous posts, I raved about .NET’s System.DirectoryServices (S.DS) — its library for accessing LDAP directories. In this post, I’ll go over how I sped up a particular bit of S.DS code in dramatic fashion. S.DS, like any code, needs to be used and studied…
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Do That Sudo Voodoo That You Do
In the Implementing Effective Access Control webinar that I did a few days ago, I spent a little time talking about sudo. It’s a pretty cool utility that, I think, is vastly underutilized. With some care, sudo can be the basis for a powerful role-based access control (RBAC) system on Linux. Sudo is a Linux/UNIX/Mac…
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Access Control and Controlling Complexity
A few days ago, I prepared a Powerpoint presentation and a demo script for a Webinar. The topic under consideration was Implementing Effective Access Control. The first thing I did was to look for a good definition of “Access Control.” As usual, Wikipedia did the trick, “Access control is the ability to permit or deny…