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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Administration - Second Edition

By : Pablo Iranzo Gómez, Pedro Ibáñez Requena, Miguel Pérez Colino, Scott McCarty
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Book Image

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Administration - Second Edition

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By: Pablo Iranzo Gómez, Pedro Ibáñez Requena, Miguel Pérez Colino, Scott McCarty

Overview of this book

With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 becoming the standard for enterprise Linux used from data centers to the cloud, Linux administration skills are in high demand. With this book, you’ll learn how to deploy, access, tweak, and improve enterprise services on any system on any cloud running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Throughout the book, you’ll get to grips with essential tasks such as configuring and maintaining systems, including software installation, updates, and core services. You’ll also understand how to configure the local storage using partitions and logical volumes, as well as assign and deduplicate storage. You’ll learn how to deploy systems while also making them secure and reliable. This book provides a base for users who plan to become full-time Linux system administrators by presenting key command-line concepts and enterprise-level tools, along with essential tools for handling files, directories, command-line environments, and documentation for creating simple shell scripts or running commands. With the help of command line examples and practical tips, you’ll learn by doing and save yourself a lot of time. By the end of the book, you’ll have gained the confidence to manage the filesystem, users, storage, network connectivity, security, and software in RHEL 9 systems on any footprint.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Systems Administration – Software, User, Network, and Services Management
9
Part 2 – Security with SSH, SELinux, a Firewall, and System Permissions
14
Part 3 – Resource Administration – Storage, Boot Process, Tuning, and Containers
21
Part 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. Here’s how we can do this:

[root@rhel-instance ~]# dnf group info "Security Tools"
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:20 ago on Fri Jun  3 08:17:27 2022.
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 
   tpm2-tools
  ...