Linux Administration/Security/Administrative Tasks
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This lesson covers security administration tasks.
Objectives and Skills
[edit | edit source]Objectives and skills for the security administration tasks portion of Linux+ certification include:[1]
- Perform security administration tasks
- Audit a system to find files with the suid/sgid bit set
- Set or change user passwords and password aging information
- Being able to use nmap and netstat to discover open ports on a system
- Set up limits on user logins, processes and memory usage
- Determine which users have logged in to the system or are currently logged in
- Basic sudo configuration and usage
- The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities: