Ok folks this week it's the admin guide. I have fleshed out the
skeleton a bit from the existing admin guide. The purpose of this is
to formulate the sub topics, many of which will be easier to write
than trying to tackle the whole topic in one fell swoop. For example
instead of attempting to tackle the whole printing document many of us
in a half hour could do up the printing to PDFs sub topic. The concept
is to add and edit this rough overview of the topics/subtopics.
A good way to work this I suspect would be to use the >> diff
convention to denote suggested changes at the start of your
commments/addition. I'll try to put this in the WIKI if I EVER get my
account there straitened out. Will make it much easier to read. This
is no means exhaustive, except to read :) I've forgotten a ton of
stuff. This is just to get the ball rolling. Next week I'll do the
same for the User/Desktop guide.
Admin guide
Undestanding the dir structure
* The Filesystem Heirarchy
* Locations for Software (commonly asked question)
* Locations for Data
Working with user accounts
Understanding Logins and Sessions
Local user accounts
LDAP link to LDAP section
NIS
Link to SAMBA doc for interaction with windoze. "Windows account interaction"
Securing User Accounts
Good password pracitices and tools
No login accounts and SUDO accounts
Groups
Overview
Management
Link to VPN section, "VPN users"
How to reset the root password (link to Rescue ops resetting root pw)
>> * Managing User Accounts (creating, modifying and deleting)
This is specific to the tools. Local user accounts can be cover with
both GUI and CLI tools. For LDAP the process is very different than
for a local user. Best covered in the sub section in which the context
is relavent.
>> * Managing Groups
Feel that simply groups will be more intuitive than Managing groups
which implies technical expertise. Those who have no idea what a group
is will be less inclined to click on managing groups than just plain
groups. Those seeking management tips will not be deterred by the
simplified title. By simply titling it groups it implies and overview
while managing groups implies a lack of an overview.
Permissions and Access Control
Overview
What they are
Organization (ie why home dir should never be world read write)
Numeric and alphanumeric meanings
chmod usage
Using ACL
* Managing Permissions (on files and directories)
* Understanding Access Control Lists (they have to be
acknowledged, but not
all software actually supports them)
Managing storage and partitions
Quick what is a parition
Extended, logical, primary
Common partitioning schemes
Short description/common usage reasons and link to LVM doc
File system types and link to mounting usage and tips
Ext 2 & 3
FAT
NTFS
Other
Working with fstab
Link to sub section in Samba doc "Mounting Windows shares"
Link to Network explorer/Network manager services.
Backups
Overview
Amanda and GP back up software.
Using secondary drives as backups and links to SW used for that
Link to Rsynch doc
Using external media
Link to tape drives
CDRom/DVD backup software
Short tutorial on using DD
Short tutorial on using tar and gzip for copying/archiving large dir stuctures
Working with disks and removable storage
File system types (almost redundant with partitioning but more
detail on
Common uses and basic does and don'ts.)
Link to LVM guide
Link to mounting guide
/mnt and /net purpose and use. Link to dir overview covering these 2.
USB/flash drives
Short overview and common usage.
Troubleshooting FAQ
SCSI devices
Short overview and common usage.
Troubleshooting FAQ
Zip and Syquest drives
Short overview and common usage.
Troubleshooting FAQ
Hot swap SATA and SCSI
Short overview and common usage.
Troubleshooting FAQ
Floppies
Short overview and common usage.
MDOS tools
Troubleshooting FAQ
Link to Tape drives
Short overview and common usage.
Troubleshooting FAQ
Networked file systems (suggesting a change from using "the" Network file system
Overview that includes differences, advantages and short capability comparision
NFS4
Configuration
Exporting
Mounting
Trouble shooting
NFS through firewalls (NFS3)
Configuration
Exporting
Mounting
Trouble shooting
SMB Linux to Linux guide
Configuration
Exporting
Mounting
Trouble shooting
Working with Windows shares link to SMB guide
GFS
Configuration
Exporting
Mounting
Trouble shooting
Link to Rsynch doc
Managing Software
Overview
Yum
Yum GUIs
RPM
Overview
Checking for installed software and versions
Manual install options
Repair and troubleshooting
Tarballs/GZIP 2/Zip
Extracting the files
Type I (./configure then make)
Type II (Binary install packages)
Type III (other)
Binary installations
Apt-get
Managing Services
GUI
Command line
Primitives
>> * Managing Firewall Ports
Shouldn't this be under security? I did not cover it in my draft on
managing services because this seems to me to be a security not
services topic.
Modifying the Startup Process
* Understanding Boot Loaders
* Advanced Boot Options
* Managing Kernels
* Running Commands on Startup
Using the Common UNIX Printing System
CUPs
Overview
Adding a Printer
local
Network Linux
Network Windows
Link to printers supported by Fedora
Sharing a printer
Managing Print Jobs
Creating a print server
LPR and CLI tools
Print ques
Printing to PDFs
Modifying the X Window Graphics System
Understanding the X Window System
Overview of desktop managers
Overveiew of desktops
link to KDE doc
link to Gnome doc
link to XFCE doc
link to Beyrl doc
Window maker Sawfish and others
Switching between desktop managers and adding new ones.
Switchdesk
Remotely controlling a Linux machine
Link to SSH tunneling
Link to X11fowarding
Link to VNC
Tunneling VNC through SSH
Isn't there a new third way?
Remotely controlling a windows machine
Link to VNC
Rdesktop
Consoles overview and usage
Adding the X Window System (after installation)
Configuring Graphics Hardware (system-config-display)
Location of files and what they do
Common modifications
Resolution
Dual heads
Networking
Configuring your nic cards
DHCP
Static
Hosts
Configuring DNS/bind
Configuring in Linux to be Master browser in Windows network
* Selecting Graphical Desktops (switching between them, and adding new ones)
>> * Configuring Remote Desktop Access
You mean as in X11 forwarding, VNC, etc? To me sounds confusing. I
broke those out into separate sub topics.
>> * Attaching a Remote Desktop
Isn't that part of the specific method for connecting remotely? Since
all of the remote desktop methods are going to be referenced in other
sections I feel it'd be better to give them their own topic page.
These are also topics people will directly search for and it would be
helpful to have them up at a higher level.
Monitoring the System
Logs
/var/log
messages
dmesg
secure
others
Default locations for HTTPD, MySQL, Postgress and other log files.
Link to SELinux troubleshooter
RCP
Top, Htop, Ntop and related tools
Sysguard
ps
GUI log tools
Systat and related tools
Link to Tripwire, AIDE and other IDS systems
Using tail and related tools
Enabling E-mail Reports
Configuring Advanced Logging (setting up a log analyzer,
redirecting syslog
to a separate server)
Link to nmap guide
Network monitors
CLI tools
GUI tools like etherape
Network manager guide
SchedulingTasks
Understanding cron and anacron
GUI cron and anacron tools
Scheduling a Task
Using crontab Schedules
Note that /etc/cron.* directories are sufficient for most tasks, but
crontab ought to be mentioned for more precise control.
File sharing
Setting up shared dirs
Using groups for file sharing
Collaboration software
Security
Firewalls
Link to securing a Fedora system best practices
Patching your system
Ports
Link to common ports list
link to Nmap
Link to RCP
Permissions from a security context
SELinux
Understanding SELinux
Adjusting the SELinux Policy (using system-config-securitylevel)
Repairing File Contexts with fixfiles
Rootkits
Rootkit hunter
Shells from a security perspective
Link to jail shells
Link to no login shells
User accounts
Philosophy
Link to security subsection of user section.
Deny hosts and other log watchers
IDS systems
Vulnerability scanners
Password best practices guide
Links to Linux security resources
Why to not use RSH, Telnet and FTP
Link to external securing apache tips
VPNs Link to vpn section
>>To me it seems logical to move LVM out to it's own doc since it is
likely to be referenced from several documents.
LVM (Logical Volume Management) is the default for Fedora systems.
* Understanding LVM (overview, see Installation Guide)
* Adding a Drive (includes formatting partitions)
* Resizing LVM Partitions
* LVM Snapshotting
The LVM HOWTO provides detailed information:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
Managing Software
>> Understanding Software Packages (link to the separate yum tutorial)
Wouldn't under managing software be a good home for yum? Where else
would it be referenced or searched for?
> * Managing Scripts and Web Applications (same principles apply to both)
Confused by this title. Are you talking about installing Firefox
extensions and enabling Java script installation when you mean web
applications? When it comes to scripts those are fairly rare today.
How many packages do you install that are not either an RPM or a type
I tarball or a binary (which is sometimes a script but to the end user
looks like an executable) ?
> * Working with Source Code
But people know it as tarballs. The words source code will strike fear
into many. Probably best to call them tar balls as that is the common
usage and also a gentler term for the technophobic.
>> * Exporting a Directory (as an NFS share) * Mounting a Remote Directory
But is that NFS4 or NFS? Lots of people keep NFS 3 around because it's
there, it works and why change something that isn't broken? What are
the advantages/disadvantages of NFS4 vrs NFS3? They clearly work in
different ways. So I broke that up into NFS and NFS4 sections.
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