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RH301 RHCE Rapid Track Course

Goal

Audience

Prerequisites

Course Summary

Course Outline

Unit 1: Essentials

• Essential initial topics in system administration, including editors, switching accounts, adding users, using cron, and managing network connections

Unit 2: Kernel Services

• The Linux kernel: variants and modules
• The /proc filesystem and the sysctl command
• Accessing devices using udev
• Exploring hardware

Unit 3: Filesystem Management

• Creating filesystems
• Making filesystem mounts persistent across reboots
• Managing swap space

Unit 4: User Administration

• Modifying and deleting user accounts
• Password aging
• Group administration
• Creating group directories
• Setting disk quotas

Unit 5: Local Security

• Setting up a host-based firewall
• Using access control lists
• The SELinux security layer
• Managing suid and sgid executables
• Controlling access to superuser authority using sudo

Unit 6: Advanced Partitioning

• Understanding and implementing Software RAID
• Understanding Logical Volume Management
• Creating and resizing logical volumes

Unit 7: Installation

• The interactive Anaconda installer
• Kickstart: a hands-free method of installation

Unit 8: System Initialization

• Understanding the boot procedure
• Configuring the GRUB boot loader
• The Initial RAM Disk
• Understanding run levels
• Controlling services

Unit 9: RPM, YUM, RHN

• RPM: The Red Hat Package Manager
• The YUM installer
• Using the Red Hat Network

Unit 10: System Administration Topics

• Configuring the X Server
• The CUPS printing system
• cron and the superuser: the system-wide crontab file
• cron and system reboots: the anacron system
• Authentication Configuration: Pluggable Authentication Modules

Unit 11: Network Configuration

• Understanding network addresses
• Using OpenSSH for network communications
• Using VNC for network communications
• Network Authentication

Unit 12: Network Security

• Protecting services using TCP Wrappers
• Protecting the system using a packet filtering host-based firewall

Unit 13: Network File Sharing Services

• Setting up an NFS server
• Setting up an FTP server
• The Samba Server: networking with Windows systems

Unit 14: Network Infrastructure

• Creating a private repository
• NTP: Coordinating time
• Configuring a DHCP server
• Configuring a DNS server

Unit 15: HTTP Service

• Configuring the Apache web server
• Configuring the Squid web proxy cache

Unit 16: Mail Service

• Understanding e-mail delivery
• Using sendmail and postfix
• Dovecot: an IMAP and POP server

Unit 17: Troubleshooting

• A method for fault analysis
• Things to check
• Understanding recovery run levels
• Using the rescue environment

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