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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Administration

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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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800569829
Length 534 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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 24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Practice exercise 1

Important note

The following exercise has, by design, been created so that there will be no highlights on commands, packages, and so on. Remember what you've learned so far in order to detect the keywords to see what needs to be done.

Don't jump into the walk-through too early. Try to remember what was covered.

Exercises

  1. Configure the time zone to GMT.
  2. Allow password-less login for the root user using SSH.
  3. Create a user (named user) that can connect to the machine without a password.
  4. The user user should change their password every week, with 2 days' warning and 1 day of usage once expired.
  5. The root user must be able to SSH as user without a password so that nobody can connect remotely as root using a password.
  6. The user user should be able to become root user without a password, and also execute commands without a password.
  7. When a user tries to log in over SSH, display a legal message about not allowing unauthorized...
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