Index
A
- AbiWord word processor
- installing / Time for action – installing the AbiWord word processor
- URL / Time for action – installing the AbiWord word processor
- removing / Removing software, Time for action – removing the AbiWord program
- upgrading / Upgrading software
- upgrading, Update Manager tool used / Time for action – upgrading software through the Update Manager tool, What just happened?
- Administrator / Have a go hero – using command line for changing permissions
- advanced shell programming
- AES
- about / Managing your password safely
- anti-virus software
- installing / Installing anti-virus software
- AppArmor
- about / Using a security module for the kernel
- installing / Time for action – installing AppArmor, What just happened?
- configuring / What just happened?
- URL / What just happened?
- arturo
- about / What just happened?
B
- .bash_history / What just happened?
- backups
- creating / Creating backups
- specific folder backup, creating / Time for action – making a backup of a specific folder
- backup file, creating / Have a go hero – creating and restoring a backup file
- backup file, restoring / Have a go hero – creating and restoring a backup file
- restoring / Restoring backups, Time for action – restoring a backup folder
- creating, for applications / Have a go hero – create backup for applications
- bash shell
- about / What's a shell?
- Berkeley System Distribution (BSD)
- about / What's a shell?
- bootable Linux Mint USB flash drive
- Bourne-Again shell
- about / What's a shell?
- Bourne shell
- about / What's a shell?
C
- Caja
- cat command
- cd command
- executing / Time for action – learning pwd and cd commands
- about / What just happened?
- executing, without arguments / Have a go hero – using a shortcut for accessing your home directory
- chmod command
- about / What just happened?
- chown command / Have a go hero – using command line for changing permissions
- Cinnamon
- about / Editions
- Clam-AV anti-virus
- CLI
- about / What's a shell?
- command history
- command line
- used, for changing permissions / Have a go hero – using command line for changing permissions
- commands
- running / Running commands
- community, Linux Mint
- URL / Open source project
- computer resources
- displaying / Displaying CPU, memory, and network usage
- information, displaying / Time for action – Displaying resources information in real time
- CPU
- displaying / Displaying CPU, memory, and network usage
- C shell
- about / What's a shell?
- current user
- searching / Time for action – finding out the current user
- Custom / Have a go hero – using command line for changing permissions
D
- daemons
- about / Processes and services
- Debian (DEB) format
- about / What just happened?
- desktop user / Have a go hero – using command line for changing permissions
- develop group
- creating / Time for action – creating a new group called develop, What just happened?
- user luke, adding / Time for action – adding the user luke to the develop group
- df command
- about / Processes and filesystems
- disk quotas
- about / Disk quotas
- assigning, to specific user / Time for action – assigning disk quota to a specific user
- disk usage
- disk usage analysis
- about / Disk usage analysis
- disk usage, examining / Time for action – examining disk usage, What just happened?
- distribution
- about / Overview
- dmesg command
- Domain Name Server (DNS) / What just happened?
- drivers
- installing / Installing additional drivers
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) / What just happened?
E
- echo $PATH command
- about / What just happened?
- echo command
- about / What just happened?
- editions, Linux Mint
- about / Editions
- Edit menu
- about / What just happened?
- ef parameters / What just happened?
- environment variables
- about / Setting environment variables
- setting / Setting environment variables
- PATH environment variable, setting / Time for action – setting the PATH environment variable, What just happened?
- export command
F
- fgrep command / What just happened?
- files
- filesystem
- about / Filesystem types
- filesystems
- troubleshooting / Processes and filesystems
- filesystems usage
- find command
- firewall
- about / Configuring a firewall
- configuring / Configuring a firewall, Time for action – how to configure a simple firewall, What just happened?
- disabling, on startup / Have a go hero – disabling firewall on startup using the command line
- FTP
- about / Connecting to servers
- FTP server
- connecting to / Time for action – connecting to an FTP server
- fuser command
- about / Processes and filesystems
G
- General Public License GPL (GNU) software license
- about / Open source project
- GitHub account
- GNU/Linux distros
- about / Overview
- GNU Privacy Guard (GPG)
- about / Building a security checklist
- GNU tools
- about / Overview
- grep command / Have a go hero – checking the history of executed commands
- group
- about / Adding a new group
- deleting / Have a go hero – try to delete a group
- user, adding / Adding a user to a group
H
- HardInfo
- hardware
- detecting / Detecting hardware
- hardware, troubleshooting
- about / Hardware
- memory, checking / Time for action – checking memory, CPU, USB, and PCI devices
- CPU, checking / Time for action – checking memory, CPU, USB, and PCI devices
- USB, checking / Time for action – checking memory, CPU, USB, and PCI devices
- PCI, checking / Time for action – checking memory, CPU, USB, and PCI devices
- hardware configuration
- hardware, detecting / Detecting hardware
- monitor, configuring / Configuring your monitor
- keyboard, configuring / Configuring a keyboard
- mouse, configuring / Configuring your mouse
- sound card, configuring / Configuring sound
- hardware detection
- device information, displaying / Time for action – how to display the device information
- history command
I
- ifconfig
- about / Networking
- info command / Have a go hero – using command line for changing permissions
- initctl / What just happened?
- insert mode / What just happened?
- installation
- Linux Mint / Installing Linux Mint from a flash drive
- installing
- ISO image
K
- KDE
- about / Editions
- KeePass
- kernel
- kernel, troubleshooting
- about / Kernel
- lsmod command, using / Time for action – using lsmod, modprobe, and dmesg commands
- modprobe command, using / Time for action – using lsmod, modprobe, and dmesg commands
- dmesg command, using / Time for action – using lsmod, modprobe, and dmesg commands
- keyboard configuration
- about / Configuring a keyboard
- Spanish layout, adding / Time for action – adding a new layout, What just happened?
- Korn shell (ksh)
- about / What's a shell?
L
- Linux
- filesystems / Filesystem types
- Linux distribution
- about / Overview
- Linux Documentation project
- URL / Summary
- Linux kernel documentation
- URL / Summary
- Linux Mint
- about / Overview
- overview / Overview
- history / A bit of history
- open source project / Open source project
- community / Open source project
- features / Why Linux Mint is different
- GitHub account / Why Linux Mint is different
- editions / Editions
- installing, from ISO image / Creating a bootable Linux Mint USB flash drive
- installing, from flash drive / Installing Linux Mint from a flash drive
- booting process / Time for action – booting and installing Linux Mint
- installing / Time for action – booting and installing Linux Mint, What just happened?
- booting / Booting Linux Mint, Time for action – booting Linux Mint for the first time
- user / Who am I?
- current user, searching / Time for action – finding out the current user
- root user, becoming / Becoming the root user
- user password, changing / Changing password
- new user, adding / Adding a new user
- new group, adding / Adding a new group
- user, adding to group / Adding a user to a group
- user privileges, changing / Changing user privileges
- hardware, configuring / Detecting hardware
- drivers, installing / Installing additional drivers
- services, starting / Starting and stopping services
- services, stopping / Starting and stopping services
- services, activating / Time for action – activating Samba
- running processes, listing / Listing the running processes
- computer resources, displaying / Time for action – Displaying resources information in real time
- troubleshooting / Hardware
- Linux Mint documentation
- URL / Summary
- Linux Mint project
- about / Open source project
- contributing to / Contributing to the project
- URL / Contributing to the project
- Linux Security Modules (LSM)
- LMDE
- about / Editions
- locate command
- log files
- checking / Checking log files
- Logical Volume Management (LVM)
- about / Filesystem types
- low-level information, devices
- displaying / Detecting hardware
- ls command
- lshw command / What just happened?
- lsmod command
- about / What just happened?
- lspci command
- lsusb command
- lusb command / What just happened?
M
- man command / Have a go hero – using command line for changing permissions
- MATE
- about / Editions
- MATE Terminal
- working with / Where are you?
- memory
- displaying / Displaying CPU, memory, and network usage
- Mint
- filesystems / Filesystem types
- modal editor / What just happened?
- modprobe command
- about / What just happened?
- modules
- about / Kernel
- monitor configuration
- about / Configuring your monitor
- screen resolution, changing / Time for action – changing the screen resolution, What just happened?
- mouse configuration
- about / Configuring your mouse
- mouse orientation, changing / Time for action – changing mouse orientation
N
- National Security Agency (NSA)
- netstat command
- networking
- about / Configuring a wired network
- wired network, configuring / Configuring a wired network
- wireless network, configuring / Configuring the wireless network
- Windows-shared folder , accessing / Accessing a Windows-shared folder
- servers connections / Connecting to servers
- troubleshooting / Networking
- ports, checking / Time for action – checking who is listening on what port
- network usage
- displaying / Displaying CPU, memory, and network usage
- new group
- adding / Adding a new group
- new user
- adding / Adding a new user
- password, changing / Time for action – creating a new user
O
- Open Files menu
- about / What just happened?
- open source project
- about / Open source project
P
- package
- about / What just happened?
- partition
- about / Filesystem types
- passwd command
- password
- managing / Managing your password safely
- PID
- about / Processes and services
- pipelines
- pipelines
- about / Pipelines and redirection
- process
- about / Processes and services
- specific process, finding / Time for action – finding a specific process
- process descriptors
- about / Processes and services
- processes
- troubleshooting / Processes and filesystems
- programs
- prompt
- about / What's a shell?
- ps command / Time for action – finding a specific process
- pwd command
- executing / Time for action – learning pwd and cd commands
Q
- quota checking
- scheduling / Have a go hero – scheduling quota checking
R
- recovery
- about / What just happened?
- redirection
- Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID)
- about / Filesystem types
- rings
- about / What just happened?
- root user
- about / Becoming the root user
- becoming / Becoming the root user
- becoming, sudo command used / Time for action – using the sudo command to become the root user, What just happened?
- whoami command, executing / Have a go hero – executing the whoami command after becoming the root user
- running processes
- listing / Listing the running processes, What just happened?
S
- Samba
- activating / Time for action – activating Samba
- search commands
- about / Search commands
- which command / Time for action – using the which command
- security
- SSH server, running / Running an SSH server
- anti-virus software, installing / Installing anti-virus software
- firewall, configuring / Configuring a firewall
- module, using for kernel / Using a security module for the kernel
- password, managing / Managing your password safely
- checklist, building / Building a security checklist
- Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux)
- security checklist
- building / Building a security checklist
- security module
- used, for kernel / Using a security module for the kernel
- servers connection
- about / Connecting to servers
- FTP server, connecting / Time for action – connecting to an FTP server, What just happened?
- secure WebDAV protocol, using / Have a go hero – connecting to a server using the secure WebDAV protocol
- service
- about / Processes and services
- services
- starting / Starting and stopping services
- stopping / Starting and stopping services
- current status, checking / Have a go hero – checking current status of all services
- activating / Activating services
- Services Settings
- about / What just happened?
- Services Settings application
- about / Activating services
- sh
- about / What's a shell?
- shell
- about / What's a shell?
- current directory, searching / Where are you?
- commands, running / Running commands
- search commands / Search commands
- flies, listing / Time for action – using the ls, locate, find, and cat commands
- flies, examining / Time for action – using the ls, locate, find, and cat commands
- flies, searching / Time for action – using the ls, locate, find, and cat commands
- environment variables, setting / Setting environment variables
- help / How to get help
- shell command
- shell commands
- pwd / Time for action – learning pwd and cd commands
- cd / Time for action – learning pwd and cd commands
- testme / Time for action – launching a program from the command line, Have a go hero – executing programs without using the full path
- which / What just happened?
- find / What just happened?
- ls / Time for action – using the ls, locate, find, and cat commands
- locate / Time for action – using the ls, locate, find, and cat commands
- echo / What just happened?
- echo $PATH / What just happened?
- export / Have a go hero – learning the export command
- history / Displaying command history
- grep / Have a go hero – checking the history of executed commands
- chmod / What just happened?
- man / How to get help
- info / How to get help
- shell script
- creating / Creating your first shell script
- executing / Time for action – creating and executing a shell script
- SMB/CIFS networking protocol
- about / What just happened?
- Snort
- about / Building a security checklist
- URL / Summary
- software
- installing / Installing software
- discovering / Have a go hero – discovering software provided by Linux Mint
- Software Manager
- about / Installing software, What just happened?
- sound card configuration
- about / Configuring sound
- window and button sound, enabling / Time for action – how to enable window and button sound
- SSH
- about / Connecting to servers
- SSH daemon
- SSH server
- running / Running an SSH server
- installing / Time for action – installing and configuring an SSH server
- configuring / Time for action – installing and configuring an SSH server
- storages types
- about / Filesystem types
- strace command
- about / Processes and filesystems
- Synaptic Package Manager
- about / Summary
- syslog file lines
- System Monitor / Time for action – list the processes running on our machine
- about / What just happened?
T
- Telnet
- about / Running an SSH server
- testme
- launching, from command line / What just happened?
- top command / Processes and filesystems
- treemap
- about / What just happened?
- troubleshooting
- about / Hardware
- hardware / Hardware
- log files / Checking log files
- kernel / Kernel
- networking / Networking
- processes / Processes and filesystems
- filesystems / Processes and filesystems
- Twofish
- about / Managing your password safely
U
- Uncomplicated Firewall (ufw) / Configuring a firewall
- Universal Network Installer (UNetbootin) / Creating a bootable Linux Mint USB flash drive
- Update Manager tool
- used, for upgrading software / Time for action – upgrading software through the Update Manager tool
- preferences, changing / Have a go hero – finding out how to change preferences in Update Manager
- user
- about / Who am I?
- deleting / Have a go hero – try to delete a user
- adding, to group / Adding a user to a group
- user luke
- adding, to develop group / Time for action – adding the user luke to the develop group
- user password
- user privileges
- about / Changing user privileges
- changing / Changing user privileges
- permissions, granting for monitoring system logs / Time for action – granting permissions to a user for monitoring system logs
- permissions, changing with command line / Have a go hero – using command line for changing permissions
W
- WebDAV
- about / Connecting to servers
- used, for server connection / Have a go hero – connecting to a server using the secure WebDAV protocol
- which command
- white list / What just happened?
- whoami command / What just happened?
- Windows-shared folder
- specific shared folder, accessing / Time for action – how to access a specific shared folder, What just happened?
- wired network configuration
- about / Configuring a wired network
- connection, configuring / Time for action – configuring your connection
- hostname, changing / Have a go hero – changing the hostname
- wireless network configuration
- about / Configuring the wireless network
- computer, connecting to wireless network / Time for action – how to connect your computer to a wireless network, What just happened?
- Wireshark
- about / Building a security checklist
- URL / Summary
X
- Xfce
- about / Editions