http://www.openssh.com/. “OpenSSH is a FREE version of the SSH/SecSH protocol suite of network connectivity tools that increasing
numbers of people on the Internet are coming to rely on. Many users of telnet, rlogin, ftp, and other such programs
might not realize that their password is transmitted across the Internet unencrypted, but it is. OpenSSH encrypts
all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other
network-level attacks. Additionally, OpenSSH provides a myriad of secure tunnelling capabilities, as well as a
variety of authentication methods.”

OReillynet.com has an article that looks at outmp, wtmp,
and lastlog. “These three files are read and updated
whenever a user logs in to your FreeBSD system.
However, you can’t read these files directly, so we’ll also
look at the various utilities you can use to garner the
information contained within these files.”

LWN.net has an announcement from Anthony Towns. “I was originally hoping to get woody out by Wednesday, if for no other
reason than for the beautiful double entendres it’d inspire. But for one
reason and another (and another and another and another), it wasn’t to
be. We are, though, more or less to freeze now, I think.”

InfoWorld reports on the deal, which it says is driven by competition from the Gnome and KDE desktop projects. Plumtree will bundle Microsoft’s .NET enterprise server software applications with its corporate portal.

From a press release at LWN.net: In a gesture of friendship and
reconciliation, e-smith, inc. wishes to reassure Microsoft Corp. that it
has no plans to violate the Redmond giant’s intellectual property
rights.

“There’s really no need for Bill Gates and his people to fear the loss
of their intellectual property,” e-smith CEO Joseph Morrison said. “The
truth is, we don’t want their code. Why would we, when we already have
something that’s much better for our customers?”

LWN.net follows up on the trademark issue. “Two opposed viewpoints are represented in these community exchanges. On one
hand, many people consider Tatu’s notes to have been politely worded and are
sympathetic with confusion caused by multiple products containing the word “SSH”.
They feel his request for name changes is reasonable and have already moved
forward to suggesting alternatives (SHH, FRESH, ESH, Secure Telnet, …)

On the other hand, many people don’t consider the name change request reasonable,
regardless of the wording (and the politeness of the wording can be argued if you look
at statements like, ‘OpenSSH is doing a disservice to the whole Internet security
community by lengthing the life cycle of the fundamentally broken SSH1 protocols.’ “

TechWeb has a story about Goldman Sachs overhauling the way it
develops and updates applications in what could become
the largest-ever enterprise project for reusing Java code.

tjhanson writes us about another report of a Micrsoft exec hinting that Linux is un-American. ” ‘I’m an American; I believe in the American way,’ continued Allchin. ‘I worry if the government encourages open source, and I don’t think we’ve done enough education of policymakers to understand the threat.’ The first reaction a listener might have to these words, after guffawing in dumbfounded amazement, might be, ‘Wow, that Linux stuff must be pretty good, if it is scaring Microsoft so much that the company has started redbaiting and agitating for government action.’ ” It’s at Salon.com.

A commentary piece at ZDNet talks about Sun’s pitch to developers and execs attending a peer-to-peer conference.
“Sun’s chief rocket scientist let attendees of this week’s O’Reilly P2P conference in San
Francisco in on plans for Jxta, the open-source software that I’m sure Sun’s PR machine will
soon begin to hype as the best-conceived plumbing for the development of P2P applications.”

LinuxPlanet has a story about Jay Beale, a Linux security expert with Mandrake, who says education is the primary defense for secure machines. “As he has said from day one, Beale’s first set of priorities in his new job is to make Linux-Mandrake and the
other MandrakeSoft product more secure. This does not mean he will be diverted from his work on Bastille. On
the contrary, through the support of MandrakeSoft, Beale is getting more time and funding to work even more
on Bastille than he did in the past.”