UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, 5th Edition

Tribute to Evi

Every field has an avatar who defines and embodies that space. For system administration, that person is Evi Nemeth.

This is the 5th edition of a book that Evi led as an author for almost three decades. Although Evi wasn’t able to physically join us in writing this edition, she’s with us in spirit and, in some cases, in the form of text and examples that have endured. We’ve gone to great efforts to maintain Evi’s extraordinary style, candor, technical depth, and attention to detail.

An accomplished mathematician and cryptographer, Evi’s professional days were spent (most recently) as a computer science professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. How system administration came into being, and Evi’s involvement ...