Livelessons – Linux System Administration

Hands-on demonstrations are conducted on a CentOS 6 Linux VM, through a Terminal Emulation connection from a Mac client.

Lesson 1 – Where to Start
Lesson 2 – The Shell
Lesson 3 – Booting and Shutting Down
Lesson 4 – Access Control, Accounts and Rootly Powers
Lesson 5 – Controlling Processes
Lesson 6 – The Filesystem
Lesson 7 – Log Files and Syslog
Lesson 8 – TCP/IP Networking
Lesson 9 – Security

Skill Level: Intermediate

Who Should Take This Course?

– Individuals seeking to learn more about the system administration discipline
– Linux beginners looking to deepen their knowledge
– Administrators of other operating systems exploring Linux for the first time
– Users returning to Linux wishing to learn new tricks or refresh their skills

What You Will Learn:

– How to use Vagrant and VirtualBox as a makeshift lab environment
– Linux’s history and background
– Shell shortcuts and basic bash scripting
– The Linux startup and shutdown procedures
– Management of user accounts
– The use of sudo to control access to privileged commands
– Interact with processes from the command line
– The filesystem layout
– File permissions and attributes
– Log file management with syslog and logrotate
– Linux on a TCP/IP network
– Network debugging with tcpdump and ping
– Using SSH for remote management
– The iptables host-based firewall
– How to secure a Linux system

Course Requirements:

– Some existing familiarity with operating systems concepts
– The fundamentals of TCP/IP networking (what an IP address and subnet mask are, the purpose of DNS, ICMP)