Rik Farrow

From: http://rikfarrow.com/about/

Rik wrote manuals for small computer system hardware, then moved on to writing about Unix. He wrote the Programmer’s Guide to UNIX, working as a ghostwriter, then Unix System Administrator’s Guide to System V (1989), and Unix System Security (1990). He began writing for UNIXWorld Magazine in 1986, and was their Technical Editor from 1989-1994. In 1994, Rik began teaching Internet Security (which was mostly Unix security with networking), something he did until Windows became the more popular choice around 2004. In 1998, Rik began editing one issue a year for USENIX ;login, and became the fulltime editor in 2006.

Rik still consults, and occasionally speaks. He was the Tutorial Coordinator for USENIX from 2014 until 2018.