System Administration
From Gray
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Final Exam Review List
Check here for the SysAdmin Final Review
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Class Syllabus
You can find the class syllabus here: SysAdmin Syllabus
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Lecture Notes
- Day 1, Authorization and Authentication Introduction
- Day 2, Windows Local user vs. Domain Administrator Lockdown (in-class demo)
- Day 3, Pam Primer
- Day 4, Windows Filesystem Permissions
- Day 5, Unix Filesystem Permissions
- Registry Editing for Windows System Configuration
- Setting up DNS
- Auditing with nmap, nessus, nikto and other tools
- Logging, syslog, and Windows logging events
- Monitoring with nagios, cacti, ganglia, munin and other tools. Also see the nagios monitoring that we set up during class at the TEAM cluster. Log in as sysadmin, password 81014101.
- net and netsh administration of Windows
- Active Directory and ldap
- Email slides
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Projects
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Reading Assignments
- Authentication and Authorization:
- Leandro mentioned Kerberos, and quite a relevant topic indeed! Please read this article on how Kerberos is used in Windows 2000 used for host- and domain-level authentication.
- Please also skim the details on Kerberos authentication from straight from the horse's mouth: Microsoft
- How much of this stuff do you really need (want?) to know? Check out this syllabus for Microsoft's 5-day course on Implementing and Administering Security in a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network
- The PAM article on linux.com is a worth-while read.
- Although it may be a bit confusing at first glance, see the Kernel.org's listing of various PAM modules
- Better-quality reading that won't completely bore you to tears can be found at IBM's DeveloperWorks project.
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Dr. Gray-Recommended Windows Tools
Click here for some recommended Windows(BOSFH,TM) tools Tools_for_Windows
