You're reading from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Administration Master Linux administration skills and prepare for the RHCSA certification exam

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Published in Nov 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800569829

Length 534 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Linux

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System Administration

Authors (3):

Scott McCarty

Pablo Iranzo Gómez

Miguel Pérez Colino

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Systems Administration – Software, User, Network, and Services Management

2. Chapter 1: Installing RHEL8 FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: RHEL8 Advanced Installation Options

4. Chapter 3: Basic Commands and Simple Shell Scripts

5. Chapter 4: Tools for Regular Operations

6. Chapter 5: Securing Systems with Users, Groups, and Permissions

7. Chapter 6: Enabling Network Connectivity

8. Chapter 7: Adding, Patching, and Managing Software

9. Section 2: Security with SSH, SELinux, a Firewall, and System Permissions

10. Chapter 8: Administering Systems Remotely

11. Chapter 9: Securing Network Connectivity with firewalld

12. Chapter 10: Keeping Your System Hardened with SELinux

13. Chapter 11:System Security Profiles with OpenSCAP

14. Section 3: Resource Administration – Storage, Boot Process, Tuning, and Containers

15. Chapter 12: Managing Local Storage and Filesystems

16. Chapter 13: Flexible Storage Management with LVM

17. Chapter 14: Advanced Storage Management with Stratis and VDO

18. Chapter 15: Understanding the Boot Process

19. Chapter 16: Kernel Tuning and Managing Performance Profiles with tuned

20. Chapter 17: Managing Containers with Podman, Buildah, and Skopeo

21. Section 4: Practical Exercises

22. Chapter 18: Practice Exercises – 1

23. Chapter 19: Practice Exercise – 2

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Using OpenSCAP with security profiles for OSPP and PCI DSS

There are several security profiles used for compliance in the industry. Two of the most common, which we will review here, are the Operating System Protection Profile (OSPP) and the PCI DSS.

The OSPP standard is heavily used in the public sector, serving general-purpose systems and also as the baseline for other more restrictive environments (that is, defense accredited systems).

PCI DSS is one of the most widely used standards in the finance sector, which also applies to other sectors that want to provide online payments using credit cards.

RHEL 8 provides references to verify those profiles using OpenSCAP tools. Let's move to the /usr/share/xml/scap/ssg/content/ directory, where they reside, and take a look:

[root@rhel8 ~]# cd   /usr/share/xml/scap/ssg/content/
[root@rhel8 content]# ls *rhel8*
ssg-rhel8-cpe-dictionary.xml
ssg-rhel8-ds-1.2.xml 
ssg-rhel8-ocil.xml  
ssg-rhel8-xccdf...

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