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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Administration

By : Miguel Pérez Colino, Pablo Iranzo Gómez, Scott McCarty
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Administration

By: Miguel Pérez Colino, Pablo Iranzo Gómez, Scott McCarty

Overview of this book

Whether in infrastructure or development, as a DevOps or site reliability engineer, Linux skills are now more relevant than ever for any IT job, forming the foundation of understanding the most basic layer of your architecture. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) becoming the most popular choice for enterprises worldwide, achieving the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification will validate your Linux skills to install, configure, and troubleshoot applications and services on RHEL systems. Complete with easy-to-follow tutorial-style content, self-assessment questions, tips, best practices, and practical exercises with detailed solutions, this book covers essential RHEL commands, user and group management, software management, networking fundamentals, and much more. You'll start by learning how to create an RHEL 8 virtual machine and get to grips with essential Linux commands. You'll then understand how to manage users and groups on an RHEL 8 system, install software packages, and configure your network interfaces and firewall. As you advance, the book will help you explore disk partitioning, LVM configuration, Stratis volumes, disk compression with VDO, and container management with Podman, Buildah, and Skopeo. By the end of this book, you'll have covered everything included in the RHCSA EX200 certification and be able to use this book as a handy, on-the-job desktop reference guide. This book and its contents are solely the work of Miguel Pérez Colino, Pablo Iranzo Gómez, and Scott McCarty. The content does not reflect the views of their employer (Red Hat Inc.). This work has no connection to Red Hat, Inc. and is not endorsed or supported by Red Hat, Inc.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1: Systems Administration – Software, User, Network, and Services Management
9
Section 2: Security with SSH, SELinux, a Firewall, and System Permissions
14
Section 3: Resource Administration – Storage, Boot Process, Tuning, and Containers
21
Section 4: Practical Exercises

Getting started with OpenSCAP and discovering system vulnerabilities

Let's get started in OpenSCAP in a practical way by first reviewing the Security Tools software group, which has some tools that are good to know, and then proceeding to run some scans.

Our initial step will be to get information on Security Tools:

[root@rhel8 ~]# dnf group info "Security Tools"
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Last metadata expiration check: 0:37:16 ago on dom 14 mar 2021 16:55:55 CET.
 
Group: Security Tools
Description: Security tools for integrity and trust verification.
Default Packages:
   scap-security-guide
Optional Packages:
   aide
   hmaccalc
   openscap
   openscap-engine-sce
   openscap-utils
   scap-security-guide-doc
   scap-workbench
   tpm-quote-tools
   tpm-tools
   tpm2-tools
 ...