The December issue of Linux Journal (#44) will be printed 20 October 1997 
and will be mailed from the printers in Post Falls, Idaho on 27 October 1997.

               			 TABLE OF CONTENTS

	         		   LINUX JOURNAL

	        		   DECEMBER 1997

FEATURES

Pluggable Authentication Modules for Linux
	An implementation of a user-authentication API
	by Andrew G. Morgan

User Administration
	How to successfully manage your users.
	by David Bandel

Linux as a Proxy Server
	To protect your system, put your firewall on a proxy server.
	by Peter Elton

System Information Retrieval
	Collect your system configuration files and store them on a 
	separate machine.
	by Dan Lasley

Reader's Choice Awards 1997
	by Gena Shurtleff

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

WWWsmith

Industrializing Web Page Construction
	Build your web pages the easy way.
	by Pieter Hintjens

Book Review: CGI Developer's Resource
	by Reuven Lerner

At the Forge: Keeping Programs Trim with CGI_Lite
	Keep your programs trim with CGI_Lite.
	by Reuven Lerner

COLUMNS

Book Review: STL and C++ Programming
Book Review: The Linux Multimedia Guide
Best of Tech Support: Best of Technical Support #44
From the Editor: Promoting Linux
Kernel Korner: The New Linux RAID Code
Linux Gazette: Disk Hog: Tracking System Disk Usage
Linux means Business: Linux in Camouflage
Letters to the Editor
New Products
Product Review: AResearch VARStation II
Product Review: Perforce Software Configuration Management System
Product Review: Raima Database Manager++, elocis Database Server
Product Review: BRU 2000 for X11
Stop the Presses

DIRECTORIES

Advertisers Index
Marketplace
Consultants Directory

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