Linux in 3 Hours

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Linux in 3 Hours
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Agenda
Agenda
•  Linux distributions
•  Installing Linux
•  Connecting to Linux
•  Exploring the Linux File System
•  Working with commands
•  Finding help about commands
•  Working with users and permissions
•  Verifying network operations
•  Managing software packages
•  Basic process management
•  Where to go from here
•  Q&A
Learn Linux in 3 Hours
About the Instructor

About your instructor
•  Linux user since 1992, Linux professional since 1996
•  Linux author, instructor and consultant since 1996
•  Author of
•  Beginning Linux System Administration
•  RHCSA Complete Video Course
•  LFCS Complete Video Course
•  Linux+/LPIC-1 Complete Video Course
•  RHCSA/RHCE Cert Guide
•  and many more, all on safaribooksonline.com
About you
Poll question 1
•  How would you rate your own Linux knowledge on a
scale 1-5?
•  1
•  2
•  3
•  4
•  5
Poll question 2
•  Do you have a favorite distribution?
•  not yet
•  Red Hat / CentOS / Fedora
•  Ubuntu /Linux Mint
•  Oracle
•  SUSE
•  Other
Poll question 3
•  Which job title applies to you best?
•  Systems administrator
•  Developer
•  Devops
•  Manager
•  Student
•  Other
Poll question 4
•  Which of the following topics would you like to learn
about in this course?
•  Working with commands and other Linux basics
•  User management
•  Permission management
•  Partitions and LVM
•  Service Management
1. Understanding
Distributions
Understanding Open Source
•  Linux is open source
•  Every developer and vendor can benefit from all work
that has been done in the open source community
•  "Give some, take some"
•  Linux is a leading platform on servers, Internet, Cloud,
IoT, embedded
•  The only environment where it's not leading is on the
end-users desktop
About Linux Distributions
•  There is no company behind Linux
•  Linux is open source and anybody can put together
some software in an installation disk
•  That's what we call a distribution
•  You better make sure that your favorite distribution is
common and widely supported
Most common Linux Distributions
•  Red Hat and Family
•  CentOS
•  Fedora
•  Ubuntu and Family
•  Linux Mint
•  Debian
•  SUSE and Family
•  SUSE Leap
2. Installing CentOS
How to install Linux?
•  To start working with Linux, you'll need to put it on
your computer
•  Instances in cloud are deployed, in all other cases you'll
need to install it
•  Install on physical hardware or in a virtual machine
•  Recommended Requirements
•  1GB of RAM
•  10GB disk spaces
•  Connectivity to the Internet
3. Connecting to Linux
Connecting to Linux
•  There are different ways to connect to Linux
•  Local graphical login
•  Local console login
•  SSH
•  How your Linux is going to be accessed, depends on
how your Linux is provided
•  And there are different user accounts, determining
your level of access to Linux tools
•  Use sudo for secure administration tasks
Lab: using sudo
•  As your current user, use sudo to run the command
useradd linda
4. Exploring the Linux File

System
Why does this matter?
•  On Linux everything is a file
•  Even devices are addressed as files!
•  So it's important to know where you can find stuff
Lab: Finding Files
•  The motd file is a configuration file. Where can you
find it?
5. Working with Linux

Commands
Working with Linux Commands
•  To unleash all that Linux has to offer, you'll need CLI
access
•  GUI offers only a limited subset of the command line
•  CLI knowledge is a first step to more advanced Linux
usage: Bash or Python scripting, Ansible or Puppet
configuration management and more
•  Linux has SO many commands to offer and they are the
essential building blocks of everything else
Essential Command Line Skills
•  Commands are interpreted by the bash shell
•  Case matters
•  Options and Arguments
•  Bash command line completion
•  Bash history
•  Let's have a look!
Lab: Using History
•  Use history to repeat the last command that started
with ls
•  Use history to repeat the last command that contains
the text "ls"
6. Finding Help about Linux

Commands
Finding Help
•  Why does this matter?
•  Too many commands, too many options
•  Different help systems are available
•  command --help
•  man and man -k
•  and others that don't matter that much
•  what about Google?
•  Best practice: focus on man -k and command --help
•  Don't forget bash Tab-completion!
Lab: using help
•  Find the appropriate command to set your system time
1 minute ahead
7. Working with Users and

Permissions
Understanding Users and Permissions
•  You won't find many user accounts for people on Linux.
You will find that every service is using user accounts as
well as group membership to get access to system
resources
User Fundamentals
•  System users and people users are defined in /etc/passwd and /etc/
shadow
•  user[Tab][Tab] and group[Tab][Tab] for managing accounts
•  Don't get overwhelmed by the many options!
•  passwd to set a password, or to lock an account
•  Home directories in /home may contain environment files
Permission Fundamentals
•  Ownership set the basic environment for working with permissions
•  There are three sets of permissions
•  Basic permissions: Read, write and execute
•  Advanced permissions: SUID, SGID and Sticky bit
•  Access Control lists for when multiple entities need to get access
•  Default permissions allow for one owner only
•  Set ownership with chown or chgrp
•  Set permissions with chmod
Lab: setting up a user environment
•  Create users lisa and linda and make sure they are a member of the
group students.
•  Create a shared group directory where members of the group
students are allowed to read and write files
•  Make sure that others has no access to this directory
8. Verifying Network
Operations
Verifying Network Operations
•  Well...
•  There are many differences between distributions in
how network information is set
•  All distributions use ip as the main tool to verify IP
based settings
•  Do NOT use ifconfig anymore!
Networking Key Tools
•  ip addr show
•  ip link show
•  ip route show
•  cat /etc/resolv.conf
•  ping
•  dig
•  ss
•  nmap
Lab: Verifying Network Connectivity
•  Use the appropriate tools to get information about your current
network configuration
•  Can you see if you're using a DHCP server?
•  Test connectivity to a server on the Internet
9. Installing Software
Packages
Installing Software Packages
•  All Linux distributions are using meta package handlers
that access repositories which contain the packages
•  Many different solutions exist to work with packages in
repositories: yum, dnf, zypper, apt
•  And some legacy solutions exist to work with individual
packages
•  Don't use them except for querying installed packages
Lab: Install software
•  Install the package that contains the file sepolicy
10. Basic Process

Management
Basic Process Management
•  It's all about top!
Where to go from here

Where to go from here
•  Getting Certified
•  Distribution Independent
•  LFCS
•  Comptia Linux+ / LPIC-1
•  Red Hat RHCSA
My Titles on Safaribooksonline
•  RHCSA Complete Video Course with Virtual Machines
•  Linux Foundation Certified Sysadmin Complete Video
Course
•  Linux+ / LPIC-1 Complete Video Course
•  Red Hat RHCSA/RHCE Cert Guide
•  All available on safaribooksonline.com
•  Just look for my name: Sander van Vugt
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