Linux System Administration
New - Learn how to install, configure, and maintain a Linux system in a networked environment.
This lab-intensive course explores core administrative tasks such as creating and managing users, creating and maintaining file systems, determining and implementing security measures, and performing software installation and package management.
Linux networking topics include installing and supporting SSH, NFS, Samba, and an Apache Web server. You’ll learn common security issues and tools such as the PAM modules that will help you secure your operating system and network environment.
This course focuses on installing and configuring an Ubuntu Linux system, and topics taught apply to other open-source Linux server distributions. Labs include user and group maintenance, system backups and restoration, software management, administration tasks automation, file system creation and maintenance, managing remote access, working with cron, configuring file sharing and Web services, and working with system logging utilities like rsyslog.