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Linux Mint System Administrator's Beginner's Guide

By : Arturo Fernandez Montoro
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Linux Mint System Administrator's Beginner's Guide

By: Arturo Fernandez Montoro

Overview of this book

<p>System administrators are responsible for keeping servers and workstations working properly. They perform actions to get a secure, stable, and robust operating system. In order to do that, system administrators perform actions such as monitoring, accounts maintenance, restoring backups, and software installation. All these actions and tasks are crucial to business success.<br /><br />"Linux Mint System Administrator’s Beginner’s Guide" is a practical and concise guide that offers you clear step-by-step exercises to learn good practices, commands, tools, and tips and tricks to convert users into system administrators in record time.<br /><br />You’ll learn how to perform basic operations, such as create user accounts and install software. Moving forward, we’ll find out more about important tasks executed daily by system administrators.</p> <p><br />Data and information are very important so you’ll learn how to create and restore backups. You will also learn about one of the most important points of an operating system: security.</p> <p><br />Thanks to "Linux Mint System Administrator’s Beginner’s Guide", you’ll learn all the basics you need to install and keep a robust and reliable Linux Mint operating system up to date.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Linux Mint System Administration Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – how to connect your computer to a wireless network


Imagine we need to connect our computer to a wireless network that is using Testing as SSID and the WEP-128 method for security. Also, we're going to use the same data for the IP address, Subnet mask, and Gateway address input boxes as we used when we configured our network in the previous section.

  1. Launch the Control Center tool from the main menu.

  2. Click on the Network Connections option from the Other group.

  3. Click on the Wireless tab, and then click on the Add button.

  4. Now you have a new window where you can add your configuration data. Choose a name for your connection, add Testing to the SSID input box, and click on the Save... button when you're ready, as shown in the following screenshot:

  5. Click on the Wireless Security tab and choose WEP 128-bit Passphrase from the Security drop-down menu. Inside the Key textbox, enter MyKey. If you want to make sure what you are entering is correct, check the Show key checkbox:

  6. Now it's...