Lab 1 System Monitoring Goal: To build skills to better assess system resources, performance and security. Sequence 1: Inspecting your system Scenario: You are assigned responsibility for this system. You must learn how it isconfigured. Deliverable:…

Lab 2 System Resource Access Controls Goal: To become familiar with system resource access controls. Sequence 1: Controlling access to certain hosts Scenario: For security reasons, you have chosen to restrict your system so that it allows interactive…

Lab 4 System Services Goal: Develop skills using system administration tools and setting up and administering CUPS. Estimated Duration: 30 Sequence 1: Using cron Scenario: You want to know some information about the status of the system every ten min…

Lab 11 System Rescue and Troubleshooting Goal: To build skills in system rescue procedures. Estimated Duration: 2 hours Lab Setup: When using rescue mode on a Xen enabled system, you may be prompted to select which root partition to mount. If you are…

Lab 4 The Domain Name System Goal: To install and configure a DNS server System Setup: Throughout this and subsequent labs, you will configure your system with various services. For each of these leave SELinux and the firewall enabled, and add the po…

Lab 3 Securing Networking Goal: To build skills with the Netfilter packet filter Sequence 1: Applying simple packet filtering to a host Scenario: A host (stationX) requires protection by packet filtering. This host has only one network interface, so…

Lab 6 Implementing Web(HTTP) Services Goal: To implement a Web(HTTP) server with a virtual host and CGI capability. System Setup: Throughout this lab, the hostnames and domain names that you use will be based upon the IP address of your machine. Any…

Lab 5 Network File Sharing Services Goal: Share file or printer resources with FTP, NFS and Samba Sequence 1: Implementing File Transport Protocol(FTP) Services Deliverable: A working FTP server accessible to hosts and users. An available, but "invis…

Lab 7 Electronic Mail Goal: To build common skills with MTA configuration Estimated Duration: 90 minutes System Setup: Ensure that SELinux and packet filtering are enabled. If you feel confident, then try to complete the lab based only on the specifi…

Lab 9 Account Management Methods Goal: To build skills with PAM configuration Sequence 1: Track Failed Login Attempts Scenario: As system administrator you have decided to keep track of failed login attempts. You would like to record how many times u…