December 2005
Beginner
480 pages
13h 27m
English
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How This Book Is Organized
This book is divided into 10 chapters, organized by subject:
- Chapter 1, Linux Authentication
Use the hacks in this chapter to explore the authentication options that are available to you in heterogeneous networked computing environments and simplify administering user accounts and passwords. This chapter also provides some quick and dirty tips for those unfortunate moments when, for one reason or another, you have to lock users out of specific systems quickly.
- Chapter 2, Remote GUI Connectivity
This chapter explores ways of connecting to remote systems. When you just can't be everywhere at once, it's incredibly useful to be able to access multiple consoles and graphical displays from the convenience of your office or machine room. You'll find many of the hacks in this chapter to be handy tips that you may want to pass on to your users who also need to work on multiple systems, regardless of what operating systems they're running.
- Chapter 3, System Services
Networks make it easy to set up servers on specific systems to address the needs of clients throughout your computing environment. The hacks in this chapter explain how to set up central servers that do things like synchronize the time on all the systems in your environment (via NTP), deliver IP addresses to newly connected hosts (using DHCP), and integrate these services with existing ones (with DHCP and name lookups done via DNS, for example). This chapter also discusses setting up centralized access ...
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