The Enterprise Linux Administrator: Journey to a New Linux Career

Part IIIBasic Configuration

Basic Configuration

The basics of installing your first Linux distributions were covered in Part 2, these being your first steps into using Linux. Part 3 expands on the knowledge gained as well as starts to look at some of the basic Linux usage concepts.

In Part 3, we will start by understanding how users can log in to their Linux distributions and how they can restrict access using ssh. We will delve into how users and groups are created and managed. We then continue on the same path of user management by exploring how files and directories can be protected and shared with different users.

With a solid foundation of user management covered, we will continue to explore package installation along with how systems are patched ...