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ChromeOS System Administrator's Guide

By : Dr. Willie Sanders, Jr.
Book Image

ChromeOS System Administrator's Guide

By: Dr. Willie Sanders, Jr.

Overview of this book

Google's ChromeOS provides a great platform for technicians, system administrators, developers, and casual users alike, providing a seemingly simplistic architecture that is easy enough for a novice user to begin working with. However, beneath the surface, this operating system boasts a plethora of powerful tools, able to rival any other OS on the market. So, learning how to harness the full potential of the OS is critical for you as a technical worker and user to thrive at your workplace. ChromeOS System Administrator’s Guide will help you reap the benefits of all features of ChromeOS. This book explains ChromeOS’ unique architecture and its built-in tools that perform essential tasks such as managing user accounts, working with data, and launching applications. As you build your foundational knowledge of the OS, you'll be exposed to higher-level concepts such as security, command line, and enterprise management. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to perform a range of system administration tasks within ChromeOS without requiring an alternative operating system, thereby broadening your options as a technician, system administrator, developer, or engineer.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1:Working with ChromeOS
5
Part 2:Security and Troubleshooting
9
Part 3:Advanced Administration

Managing device permissions and Linux backup/restore

As you learned in the previous section, the Linux development environment is a virtual Linux virtual machine running on top of ChromeOS. This means that many of the security measures discussed in Chapter 4, ChromeOS Security, do not apply to securing your LDE virtual machine. So, what does that mean for a ChromeOS systems administrator? It means that you’re going to have to take the security concepts you’ve learned from managing ChromeOS’s security and adopt them to the Linux operating system. Doing this will ensure that you can maintain a healthy Linux environment for projects and development efforts. Although this isn’t a Linux administration guide, you’ll learn exactly how to control permissions and perform data backups/restores using the tool integrated into ChromeOS to control your Linux environment.

Linux permissions

When addressing Linux permissions in ChromeOS, your focus will be primarily...