Book description
Teaches you how to improve your hands-on knowledge of Linux using challenging, real-world scenarios. Each chapter explores a topic that has been chosen specifically to demonstrate how to enhance your base Linux system, and resolve important issues. This book enables sysadmins, DevOps engineers, developers, and other technical professionals to make full use of Linux’s rocksteady foundation.
Explore specific topics in networking, email, filesystems, encryption, system monitoring, security, servers, and more-- including systemd and GPG. Understand salient security concerns and how to mitigate them. Applicable to almost all Linux flavors--Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, CentOS--Practical Linux Topics ?c?an be used to reference other Unix-type systems with little modification.
Improve your practical know-how and background knowledge on servers and workstations alike, increase your ability to troubleshoot and ultimately solve the daily challenges encountered by all professional Linux users. Empower your Linux skills by adding Practical Linux Topics to your library today.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents at a Glance
- Contents
- About the Author
- About the Technical Reviewer
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 : Real-Time Network Statistics with Iftop
- Chapter 2 : Destroying Sensitive Data
- Chapter 3 : Supercharged systemd
- Chapter 4 : Zero Downtime Linux
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Chapter 5 : Get More with Wget
- Long- and Shorthand Support
- Logging Errors
- Automating Tasks
- Fulfilling Requests with Retries
- Showing Progress
- DNS Considerations
- Using Authentication
- Denying and Crafting Cookies
- Creating Directory Structures
- Precision
- Security
- Downloading Assets
- Persistent Config
- A Note on Criminal Activity
- Summary
- Chapter 6 : SECURING SSH with PAM
- Chapter 7 : Your Disks, Your Way
- Chapter 8 : No sFTP Doesn’t Mean No Encryption
- Chapter 9 : Making the Most of the Screen Utility
- Chapter 10 : Improve Security with SELinux
- Chapter 11 : Nattier Networks
- Chapter 12 : Keeping Information Private with GPG
- Chapter 13 : Get Permission from Your Peers with Sudo
- Chapter 14 : Loop Disks and Wubi
- Appendix A: Hack, Break, Fix
- Index
Product information
- Title: Practical Linux Topics
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2016
- Publisher(s): Apress
- ISBN: 9781484217726
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