LPI102

Inhalt

1. Account and Security Administration
   1. LPI Objectives Covered
   2. User and Group Concepts
   3. User Private Group Scheme
   4. User Administration
   5. Modifying Accounts
   6. Group Administration
   7. Password Aging
   8. Default User Files
   9. su and Wheel
   10. sudo
   11. Setting Resource Limits via ulimit
   12. /lib/modules/pam_limits.so

   Lab Tasks

   1. User and Group Administration
   2. User Private Groups
   3. Setting Limits with the pam_limits Modules
2. Customizing the Shell and Writing Simple Scripts
   1. LPI Objectives Covered
   2. sh: Configuration Files
   3. sh: Script Execution
   4. bash: Configuration Files
   5. bash: Command Line History
   6. bash: "shortcuts"
   7. bash: prompt
   8. Shell Scripting
   9. Example Shell Script
   10. Positional Parameters
   11. Input & Output
   12. Doing Math
   13. Comparisons with test
   14. Exit Status
   15. Conditional Statements
   16. Flow Control: case
   17. The for Loop
   18. The while Loop

   Lab Tasks

   1. Bash Login Scripts
   2. The Z Shell
   3. Writing a Shell Script
3. Automating Tasks
   1. LPI Objectives Covered
   2. Automating Tasks
   3. at/batch
   4. at Access Control
   5. cron
   6. The crontab Command
   7. crontab Format
   8. /etc/cron.*/ Directories
   9. anacron

   Lab Tasks

   1. Adding System cron Jobs
   2. Creating and Managing User Cron Jobs
4. Networking
   1. LPI Objectives Covered
   2. IPv4 Fundamentals
   3. TCP/IP Fundamentals
   4. Enabling IPv6
   5. Linux Network Interfaces
   6. Ethernet Hardware Tools
   7. Runtime configuration change
   8. Configuring Routing Tables
   9. Advanced Configuration
   10. Starting and Stopping Interfaces
   11. RHEL Configuration Tools
   12. SUSE YaST Configuration Tool
   13. GNOME Network Administration Tool
   14. DNS Clients
   15. Network Diagnostics
   16. Information from netstat

   Lab Tasks

   1. Basic Client Networking
   2. Configuring IPv6
5. X Window System
   1. LPI Objectives Covered
   2. The X Window System
   3. X Modularity
   4. X.Org Drivers
   5. Starting X
   6. Configuring X Manually
   7. system-config-display on RHEL5.3
   8. sax2 & yast x11 on SLES11
   9. The X11 Protocol and Display Names
   10. Display Manager Concepts
   11. Display Managers and Graphical Login
   12. X Access Control
   13. Remote X Access (historical/insecure approach)
   14. Remote X Access (modern/secure approach)
   15. Customizing X Sessions
   16. Starting X Apps Automatically
   17. Window Manager Concepts

   Lab Tasks

   1. Configure X Security
   2. Customize X Components
   3. Launching X Apps Automatically
   4. Secure X
6. Accessibility and Localization
   1. GNOME Accessibility Support
   2. Internationalization & Localization
   3. Character Encodings
   4. Locales
   5. Setting the Time Zone

   Lab Tasks

   1. GNOME Accessibility
   2. Character Encoding Conversion
   3. Locale Configuration
   4. System Clock Configuration - Traditional Method
   5. System Clock Configuration - Distribution tools [RHEL5.3]
   6. System Clock Configuration - Distribution tools [SLES11]
   7. System Clock Configuration - Distribution tools [U804]
7. Time, Logging, and Printing
   1. LPI Objectives Covered
   2. Managing System Time
   3. Managing Network-Wide Time
   4. Continual Time Sync with NTP
   5. Configuring NTP Clients
   6. System Logging
   7. /etc/syslog.conf
   8. Common UNIX Printing System
   9. Configuring Print Queues
   10. Standard Print Commands
   11. Format Conversion Utilities
   12. Common UNIX Printing System
   13. Defining a Printer

   Lab Tasks

   1. NTP Client Configuration
   2. Printing
   3. Configuring Print Queues
8. Fundamentals of MTA's and SQL
   1. LPI Objectives Covered
   2. SQL Databases
   3. SQL: Adding and Changing Data
   4. SQL: Viewing and Removing Data
   5. SMTP
   6. SMTP Terminology
   7. SMTP Architecture
   8. SMTP Commands
   9. SMTP Extensions
   10. SMTP Session
   11. Sendmail Architecture
   12. Sendmail Components
   13. Sendmail Configuration
   14. Databases
   15. Exim
   16. Postfix Features
   17. Postfix Architecture
   18. Postfix Components
   19. Postfix Configuration
   20. master.cf
   21. main.cf

   Lab Tasks

   1. SQL with Sqlite3
   2. Configuring Sendmail
   3. Configuring Postfix
9. Host Security and Encryption
   1. LPI Objectives Covered
   2. Controlling Logins
   3. xinetd
   4. Xinetd Configuration and Access Control
   5. Xinetd Connection Limiting
   6. Xinetd: Resource limits, redirection, logging
   7. TCP Wrappers
   8. /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} Shortcuts
   9. Advanced TCP Wrappers
   10. Secure Shell
   11. ssh and sshd Configuration
   12. Accessing Remote Shells
   13. Transferring Files
   14. Alternative sftp Clients
   15. SSH Key Management
   16. ssh-agent

   Lab Tasks

   1. Securing xinetd Services
   2. Enforcing Security Policy with xinetd
   3. Securing Services with TCP Wrappers
   4. Introduction to ssh and scp
   5. SSH Key-based User Authentication
   6. Using ssh-agent