L I N U X A D M I N I S T R AT I O N : C U S T O M I S E D S Y L L A B U S B A S E D

ON RHEL-7

MODULE I : LINUX ESSENTIALS

The Basics
 Origins of Linux
 Free Software, “Open Source” and the GPL
 The Kernel Development Model
 Linux Distributions & their Application Base
 Using the Linux System: Users
 Logging on and off
 The System Administrator: Root User
 Graphical User Interface in Linux
 X Window System

Graphical Installation of Linux OS

Device Identities
Partition Types & Tools

The Command Line Interpreter—the Shell

Shell Characteristics
• Command Interface
• Command Interpreter
• Setting Environment Variables
• Command History
• I/O Redirection Facility
• Job Control
• Command-line Editing
• Command Completion
 Programming Language
 Terminals and Terminal Emulations
 Shell Characteristics
 Shell Prompt Settings

Getting Help
 Man Pages
 Info Pages
 HOWTOs
 Websites

The Linux File System

  The Essential features
 The Basic Structure : Inodes, Extents & Blocks
 Essential Contents
 Types of Files
 Devices as files
 Mounting and unmounting Filesystems

Shell Commands
 Basic User Commands pwd,who,whoami,users,groups,w, finger,chfn,date,cal
 Files and Directories ls , cp, mv ,cd, mkdir, rmdir, rm, touch
 Viewing Text Files & Using Pipes cat, more, less, wc
 Finding Files find, whereis, whatis,which,locate, updatedb
 Disk Related df, du,fdisk,parted
 Memory Related free, vmstat, meminfo

The vi Editor
 Overview
 Basic Functions
 Modes of Operation
 Extended Commands

Compression,Archiving & Backup Utilities
 gzip,gunzip,bzip2
 The tar utility

Installing Applications
 Using rpm
 Using tar
Exploring the Powerful String processing utilities
 The head, tail, tailf, wc Utilities
 The sort, diff, cut, paste,uniq Utilities
 The paste & tr Utilities

Regular Expressions
 Using grep ,sort,tee

Linux Processes
 Process States
 Foreground & Background Processes
 Process Identities
 Process Related Commands- ps, top, tree, kill,gtop, nice,renice, bg,jobs,fg
 Module -II

User Administration

Adding and Managing Users and their Profiles:

 Commands :useradd,usermod,userdel, gpasswd, pwconv,pwunconv with various options
 Explain the significance of files under /etc directory : login.defs,skelpasswd,shadow,group,gshadow
etc.
 Sudoers /etc/sudoers and entries in it.
 Extended Attributes : chattr,lsattr
 Access Control Lists (ACL) : setfacl, getfacl
 User Disk Quotas Setup on XFS
 Sudoers utility visudo to setup co-administrators
 Setting up Job Scheduling using at and cron utilities

File Access Permissions & Attributes

 Levels of Permission & Class of Users

 Default Permission Settings : File Mode Creation Mask,umask
 Assigning permissions : Using symbolic and absolute modes, chmod
 Changing user/group Ownership of files : chown, chgrp
 Access Control Lists (ACL)

The Linux Boot Process & System Run Levels and Services

 MBR (Boot Loader)

 Kernel initialization
 BIOS Initialization
 Control Services Using systemd
 Control system services using systemctl

Manage RHEL Networking Services

 Configuring the Network Interface Card in Linux

 Testing the Linux Network using ping
 Connecting to other hosts in the LAN using telnet
 Using OpenSSH to Connect to other hosts in the LAN
 Copying files across the hosts using ftp and scp
 Manage IPv6 Network Configuration

Application Management through yum

 Main Configuration File

 Creating yum repositories
 Using yum to install,update,remove, and query packages
 yum group utilities
Basic Kernel Management
 Kernel Overview
 Reading & Deciphering the kernel ring buffer messages
 The /proc Directory and its Importance
 List, load & remove kernel modules

Analysing and Storing Logs : rsyslogd, logrotate, /etc/rsyslog.conf file

Logical Volume Manager

Creating an LVM partition using fdisk utility

Recognising various components of LVM
Implement LVM Storage
Extending and Reducing a Volume Group

An Introduction to Security-Enhanced Linux -SE Linux

Design of SELinux
View Mappings of SELinux Users
User's Password Locking Mechanism
Modifying the 'type' of a File
Changing 'Context Type'
Installing SELinux-specific Man Pages
SELinux Booleans
Policy Violation Logs