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K. HitchcockThe Enterprise Linux Administratorhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8801-6_6

6. Access Control

Kenneth Hitchcock1  
(1)
Hampshire, UK
 

In Chapter 5, we learned how to access a Linux environment, what some of the basic commands you need to know to navigate around the Linux command-line interface, and finally how to manage the graphical desktop for a Linux distribution.

In this chapter, we will dig a little further into how you will control the ssh access you allow to your system, how you could restrict access, and some of the important configuration you should be aware of. We will also briefly touch on how you would configure your local firewall to ...

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