Fedora 14: Administration and Security (Google eBook)

Richard Petersen

Surfing Turtle Press, 2011 - Linux - 500 pages

This book is designed as an administration and security reference. Administration tools are covered as well as the underlying configuration files and system implementations. The emphasis is on what administrators will need to know to perform key administration and security tasks. Topics covered include user management, Upstart service management, time server settings, runlevels, software management, kernel configuration, virtualization, encryption, firewalls, SSH, SELinux, and file system management, LVM, RAID, devices (HAL and udev), backups, and shell configuration.

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Contents

• Part 1: 29
• Fedora 14 Introduction: 31
• Basic System Administration: 39
• System Startup and Services: 69
• System Startup files and scripts: 77
• Managing Services: 83
• Network Time Protocol NTP: 97
• Installing and Updating Software: 101
• Using repositories: 125
• System Information and management: 139
• Managing Users: 157
• Kernel Administration: 185
• Virtualization: 205
• Security: 231
• Authorization: 233
• Encryption: 243
• File and Directory Access: 261
• Security Enhanced Linux: 279
• Terminology: 283
• Configuration with systemconfigselinux: 290
• The SELinux reference policy: 298
• SSH Kerberos and IPsec: 311
• Firewalls: 329
• Firewall Other Ports configuration: 331
• A network with a firewall: 348
• Part 3: 363
• File System management: 365
• Journaling: 377
• mkfs mke2fs mkswap parted and fdisk: 388
• LVM and RAID: 397
• Logical Volume Manager administration systemconfiglvm: 401
• Devices: 423
• Backup: 453
• Deja Dup backup dialog and preferences: 456
• Shell Configuration: 469
• Getting Fedora: 489
• Table Listing: 491
• Figure Listing: 495
• Index: 501

About the author

Richard Petersen, MLIS, teaches at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of all six editions of Linux: The Complete Reference and Fedora 7 & Red Hat Enterprise Linux: The Complete Reference.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Fedora 14: Administration and Security
• Author: Richard Petersen
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Surfing Turtle Press, 2011
• ISBN: 193628023X, 9781936280230
• Length: 500 pages