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Linux Administration Cookbook

You're reading from   Linux Administration Cookbook Insightful recipes to work with system administration tasks on Linux

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789342529
Length 826 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Adam K. Dean Adam K. Dean
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction and Environment Setup 2. Remote Administration with SSH FREE CHAPTER 3. Networking and Firewalls 4. Services and Daemons 5. Hardware and Disks 6. Security, Updating, and Package Management 7. Monitoring and Logging 8. Permissions, SELinux, and AppArmor 9. Containers and Virtualization 10. Git, Configuration Management, and Infrastructure as Code 11. Web Servers, Databases, and Mail Servers 12. Troubleshooting and Workplace Diplomacy 13. BSDs, Solaris, Windows, IaaS and PaaS, and DevOps 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Technical requirements

As introduced in the first chapter, we're going to use Vagrant and VirtualBox for all of our work in this chapter and those going forward. This allows us to quickly provision infrastructure for testing, and saves you the manual job of creating multiple VMs each time.

If you really, really, don't want to use VirtualBox or Vagrant, then you don't have to, and I've tried to keep the examples as generic as possible, but you will probably find it much easier if you do.

I've put together the following Vagrantfile for use in this chapter:

# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :

$provisionScript = <<-SCRIPT
sed -i 's#PasswordAuthentication no#PasswordAuthentication yes#g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
systemctl restart sshd
SCRIPT

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.vm.provision "shell",
inline: $provisionScript...
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Linux Administration Cookbook
Published in: Dec 2018
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781789342529
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