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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Administration

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Administration

By : Miguel Pérez Colino, Pablo Iranzo Gómez, Scott McCarty
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Administration

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Administration

4.5 (4)
By: Miguel Pérez Colino, Pablo Iranzo Gómez, Scott McCarty

Overview of this book

Whether in infrastructure or development, as a DevOps or site reliability engineer, Linux skills are now more relevant than ever for any IT job, forming the foundation of understanding the most basic layer of your architecture. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) becoming the most popular choice for enterprises worldwide, achieving the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification will validate your Linux skills to install, configure, and troubleshoot applications and services on RHEL systems. Complete with easy-to-follow tutorial-style content, self-assessment questions, tips, best practices, and practical exercises with detailed solutions, this book covers essential RHEL commands, user and group management, software management, networking fundamentals, and much more. You'll start by learning how to create an RHEL 8 virtual machine and get to grips with essential Linux commands. You'll then understand how to manage users and groups on an RHEL 8 system, install software packages, and configure your network interfaces and firewall. As you advance, the book will help you explore disk partitioning, LVM configuration, Stratis volumes, disk compression with VDO, and container management with Podman, Buildah, and Skopeo. By the end of this book, you'll have covered everything included in the RHCSA EX200 certification and be able to use this book as a handy, on-the-job desktop reference guide. This book and its contents are solely the work of Miguel Pérez Colino, Pablo Iranzo Gómez, and Scott McCarty. The content does not reflect the views of their employer (Red Hat Inc.). This work has no connection to Red Hat, Inc. and is not endorsed or supported by Red Hat, Inc.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
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Section 1: Systems Administration – Software, User, Network, and Services Management
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Section 2: Security with SSH, SELinux, a Firewall, and System Permissions
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Section 3: Resource Administration – Storage, Boot Process, Tuning, and Containers
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Section 4: Practical Exercises

Chapter 5: Securing Systems with Users, Groups, and Permissions

Security is a key part of managing a system, and understanding the security concepts in order to provide the right access to the right resource to the right user, or group of users, is required for any system administrator.

In this chapter, we will review the basics of security in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). We will add new users to a system and change their attributes. We will also add a user to a group, and reviewing groups before making changes will be seen in this chapter. We shall review how to handle user passwords and changing the age requirements for them, locking and/or restricting user access. We will use sudo as a way to assign admin privileges to different users in the system (and even disable the root account). We will also take a deeper look into file permissions and how to change them, using an extended capability to enable commands to be run with a different user or group or simplify group collaboration...

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