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CentOS System Administration Essentials

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CentOS System Administration Essentials

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CentOS System Administration Essentials
Nov, 2014 | 174 pages
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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
CentOS System Administration Essentials
CentOS System Administration Essentials
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Taming vi
Taming vi
CLI trickery – shortcuts that you will love
Vim and vi
Getting the .vimrc setup the way you like
Search and replace
Learning to remove extraneous comments from a file with a few deft key strokes
Summary
2
Cold Starts
Cold Starts
The GRUB and MBR
When is the root filesystem not the root filesystem?
Working on the GRUB console
Protecting the GRUB menu with passwords
Boot splashing with plymouth
Summary
3
CentOS Filesystems – A Deeper Look
CentOS Filesystems – A Deeper Look
A magician's secret
Special permissions
Naming your pipes
Understanding the command stat
Enterprise filesystem shootout
Using BTRFS snapshots
Summary
4
YUM – Software Never Looked So Good
YUM – Software Never Looked So Good
Managing software installation with RPM files
Creating your own RPM file
Creating a YUM Repository
Summary
5
Herding Cats – Taking Control of Processes
Herding Cats – Taking Control of Processes
Managing services with Upstart
Creating your own Upstart script
Managing processes
Summary
6
Users – Do We Really Want Them?
Users – Do We Really Want Them?
Managing public and private groups
Getent
Quotas
Scripting user creation
Summary
7
LDAP – A Better Type of User
LDAP – A Better Type of User
LDAP concepts
Installing 389-ds
LDAP user account management
LDAP authentication
Summary
8
Nginx – Deploying a Performance-centric Web Server
Nginx – Deploying a Performance-centric Web Server
Installing and configuring Nginx
Installing PHP
Installing MySQL
Create dynamic web content
Summary
9
Puppet – Now You Are the Puppet Master
Puppet – Now You Are the Puppet Master
Installing the Puppet master
Puppet resource
Managing packages, services, and files
Summary
10
Security Central
Security Central
Understanding PAM configuration files
Limits of PAM
SELinux
Hardening Linux
Summary
11
Graduation Day
Graduation Day
Securing remote access to your system
Best practices of OpenLDAP
Best practices of Nginx
Mastering Puppet
What's new in CentOS 7
Summary
Index
Index

Credits

Author

Andrew Mallett

Reviewers

Jonathan Hobson

Manikandan Somasundaram

Ahmet Fuat Sungur

Commissioning Editor

Pramila Balan

Acquisition Editor

Richard Harvey

Content Development Editor

Akashdeep Kundu

Technical Editors

Vijin Boricha

Nikhil Potdukhe

Copy Editors

Merilyn Pereira

Adithi Shetty

Project Coordinator

Neha Thakur

Proofreaders

Paul Hindle

Clyde Jenkins

Indexer

Mariammal Chettiyar

Graphics

Sheetal Aute

Production Coordinator

Arvindkumar Gupta

Cover Work

Arvindkumar Gupta

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