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Hands-On Linux Administration on Azure - Second Edition
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Hands-On Linux Administration on Azure - Second Edition

by Rithin Skaria, Kamesh Ganesan, Frederik Vos
February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
508 pages
9h 18m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 6: Managing Linux Security and Identities

In the previous chapter, we discussed handling storage, along with network and process management. However, as a system administrator, your primary goal is to secure your Linux machine to deny any unauthorized access or limit access to users. In an enterprise environment, security breaches are a massive concern. In this chapter, we'll be covering security—the protection of your workload at the operating system level; for example, if your organization is a financial institution where you will be dealing with workloads that deal with monetary commitments and even the personally identifiable information (PII) of customers, it's critical that you secure the workload to avoid any breaches. Of course, ...

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