Features

Pluggable Authentication Modules for Linux  by Andrew G. Morgan

An implementation of a user-authentication API

User Administration  by David Bandel

How to successfully manage your users.

Linux as a Proxy Server  by Peter Elton

To protect your system, put your firewall on a proxy server.

Readers' Choice Awards 1997  by Gena Shurtleff

System Information Retrieval  by Dan Lasley

Collect your system configuration files and store them on a separate machine.

News & Articles

Using Linux to Teach Unix System Administration  by Joe Kaplenk

Linux Makes the Big Leagues, Hewlett Packard Interworks 97  by Sam Williams

The Quick Start Guide to the GIMP, Part 2  by Michael J. Hammel

LJ Interviews Larry Augustin  by Marjorie Richardson

Reviews

Product Review   OmniBasic  by Eric Harlow

Product Review   BRU 2000 for X11  by Garrett Smith

Product Review   Raima Database Manager++, Velocis Database Server  by Nick Xidis

Product Review   Perforce Software Configuration Management System  by Tom Bjorkholm

Product Review   VA Research VAR Station II  by Jim Dennis

Book Review   STL for C++ Programmers  by Bob Adkins

Book Review   The Linux Multimedia Guide  by Michael J. Hammel

WWWsmith

Industrializing Web Page Construction  by Pieter Hintjens

Book Review   CGI Developer's Resource  by Reuven Lerner

At the Forge   Keeping Programs Trim with CGI_Lite  by Reuven Lerner

Columns

Letters to the Editor  

From the Editor   Promoting Linux  

From the Publisher   A Confession and Some Ramblings  

Linux Means Business   Linux in Camouflage  

New Products  

Kernel Korner   The New Linux RAID Code  by Miguel de Icaza, Ingo Molnar, and Gadi Oxman

Linux Gazette   Disk Hog: Tracking System Disk Usage  by Ivan Griffin

Best of Technical Support  by Gena Shurtleff