hello people.

All you regular people must have noticed i am not being that regular on W2S frontpage. Well, not only am busy (Lots and Lots of AMC (Annual Maintanence Contracts)) but also, i have joined a REDHAT ADMINISTRATION class. these peeps(tutors) are good. Just to give you complete Idea here is the courseware ( i documented this in MS Word2003) below:-

Update 1 (Oct 15 2003):- When i was about to join the batch .. they (institute) asked me what do i know of linux ; i told them all i knew and listening to this they threw me in a running batch (which had completed 10-12 lectures), to make it short, i am near the end of MODULE 1 but still have to do 4 "units" in sundays batches.

Update 2 (Dec 14 2003 ) :- The course is almost over . only firewall settings ,DDOS scenario and how to recover/avoid it and X setting and security are remaining. will take another 10-15 days .


MODULE 1
Unit 1: Hardware and Installation (X 86 Architecture)

Hardware compatibility, CPU and SMP support, New Hardware Detection, Plug and Play, Serial and Parallel Ports, Block and other Devices, Disk Addressing and Partitioning, Peripheral Devices, Kick start Configuration, CD-Rom based installation, ISO based installation, NFS and FTP based installation.
Configuring a Red hat Linux work installation server as NFS, FTP based server.

Unit 2: Linux Basic.

Issue essential Linux commands from bash shell command line.
Launch apps from the command line and Gnome interface.
Use and customize the X windows system and Gnome desktop environment.
Understand the Linux file system.
Perform Common file maintenance tasks.
Understand and maintain file access permissions.
Copy to and from a floppy diskette.
Open, Edit and save text documents using the VI editor.
Us printing commands and utilities.
Understand and use client side email.
Connect processed and files using standard I/O and Pipes Backup.
Query Packages on your System.

Unit 3 : User and Group Administration.

Creating User and group accounts, User authorization configuration.
Shadow package and utilities, Authentication configuration permission, User templates and login policy, User & Login Profile.

Unit 4 : Linux Boot Process

Linux boot sequence, Understanding Init process and inittab and lilo.conf, managing system V initializing Scripts, GRUB boot manager, Dual Boot OS, Booting Linux from Windows and boot.ini.

Unit 5: Disk Configuration in Linux.

The Linux quota system, Understanding /etc/fstab. Creating partition and installing file system ext3 on partition. Software RAID configuration, CDROM, floppy mounting.

Unit 6 : Linux kernel and Services.

Configuring, compiling and installing the Linux Kernel, Kernel modules, Runlevels. Ntsysv, rc.d directory, insmod Ismod and chkconfig.

Unit 7: Standard Networking Services.

TCP/IP fundamentals, BIND (DNS), Sendmail, FTP HTTP/Apache, NFS Sever, Samba (as a windows server or as a PDC/BDC), DHCP, Squid Proxy server.

Unit 8: X Window System.

The X Server, X clients/ Window Managers, The X font Server Display managers , X free 86 Startups, The Gnome and KDE environments remote Display of X applications , X security.

Unit 9: Host Security and Firewall.

Security Concepts, Firewall using Ipchains and Iptables, Firewall using IP masquerading.
The Xinetd Super-Server and tcp_warpers.
Ssh: secure shell, telnet and remote copy.
Rescue Environment utilities.

Unit10: Troubleshooting.

Understanding different log files, troubleshooting in each section of this module.




MODULE 2 Advance part




Unit 11: Routers and VPN

Linux as a router ? Static and Dynamic Routes, PPTP, L2TP, Network to Network VPN host & client based VPN, Securing tunnel using IPsec.

Unit 12: Administering a secure Redhat Linux network.

Introduction to security.
Host-Level security, Service-Level security (Securing System services tcp_wrapers, Xinetd).
Network-level security (Firewalling, NAT, iptables).
System monitoring (File system analysis, Log file analysis, monitoring and limiting processes, tripwire)

Unit 13: Administering a secure Redhat Linux network.

PKI, Encrypted Communications (Digital Certificates, OpenSSH, stunnel), SSL technology, creating CA and issuing certificates.

Unit 14: Advanced RPM for system administrators.

Why and when to rebuild, Support and compatibility considerations.
The Contents of an RPM packages.
The spec file, the important spec file directives, RPM build commands, Gnome RPM.

Unit 15: Load balancing using Red Hat Linux Advanced Server.

Implementing a two-node load-balancing pair using Piranha, Security considerations when using Piranha, concepts of failover and clustering.

Unit 16: Open LDAP.

LDAP Concepts, Configuring and implementing LDAP, understanding of schema and Idif files. LDAP Commands and utilities. LDAP based email address list, LDAP based authentication.

Unit 17: Introduction of MYSQL database.

MySQL Database basics, Creating and deleting databases, creating tables and assigning Privileges to users. Running query using MySQL, Utilities. Connecting database from remote Systems.


Unit 18: Qmail and Vpopmail.

Understanding MTA, MUA, MDA.
Installing, configuring, implementing Qmail based SMTP and Pop3 mail server. Creating virtual email domains and virtual user accounts with quota using Vpopmail, User accounts using MySql database. Web-based email using sqwebmail. Web based administration of Qmail and Vpopmail. Creating and managing mailing list manager, IMAP server using Courier package.

Unit 19: Intruder Detection system.

Packet capture/sniffer, packet logger and intruder detecting using Snort. Storing all tcp/udp headers and alerts in MySQL database. Getting alert popup on windows based systems, Analysis of traffic and alerts using ACID, ADODB, PHP plot using Apache from remote systems running IE/Netscape internet browser.

Unit 20: Kerberos Authentication.

Understanding Kerberos version 4 and 5 concepts.
Configuring, implementing, and managing Kerberos tickets, setting authentication using Kerberos.

Unit 21: PPP and RADIUS server.
Unit 22: Remote booting ? LTSP project

Unit 23: Scripting and Automated Task, Introduction to PHP & PERL with MySQL.

Unit 24: Administration utilities ? Linuxconf, Webmin, ISPman, Commanche3.


So after two months you are gonna ph34r me.

Degger Just for knowing these topics on Linux, I should be mod here.

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