LPI Linux Acceptance LPIC1 Assay 102 Abundant Objectives

 11 July 15:06   

    The afterward actual is anon from the Linux Able Convention at [http://www.lpi.org/en/obj_102.html Objectives 102] reprinted with their . Agenda that their admittance in this book in no way signifies endorsement on the allotment of LPI.

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    This is a appropriate assay for LPI acceptance Akin 1. It covers basal arrangement administering abilities that are accepted beyond all distributions of Linux .

    Each cold is assigned a weighting value. The weights ambit almost from 1 to 10, and announce the about accent of anniversary objective. Objectives with college weights will be covered in the assay with added questions.

    ;Weight: 4

    Description: Candidates should be able to administer and/or concern a atom and atom loadable modules. This cold includes using command-line utilities to get advice about the currently active atom and atom modules. It aswell includes manually loading and auction modules as appropriate. It aswell includes getting able to actuate if modules can be unloaded and what ambit a bore accepts. Candidates should be able to configure the arrangement to amount modules by names additional than their book name.

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

    ;/lib/modules/kernel-version/modules.dep

    ;/etc/modules.conf & /etc/conf.modules

    ;depmod

    ;insmod

    ;lsmod

    ;rmmod

    ;modinfo

    ;modprobe

    ;uname

    ;Weight: 3

    Description: Candidates should be able to customize, build, and install a atom and atom loadable modules from antecedent This cold includes customizing the accepted atom configuration, architecture a new kernel, and architecture atom modules as appropriate. It aswell includes installing the new atom as able-bodied as any modules, and ensuring that the cossack administrator can locate the new atom and associated files (generally amid beneath /boot, see cold 1.102.2 for added data about cossack administrator configuration).

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

     /usr/src/linux/ /usr/src/linux/.config

     /lib/modules/kernel-version/ /boot/ make

     create targets: config, menuconfig, xconfig, oldconfig, modules, install, modules_install, depmod

    ;Weight: 3

    Description: Candidates should be able to adviser the arrangement through the booting process. This includes giving commands to the cossack loader and giving options to the atom at cossack time, and blockage the contest in the log files.

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

     /var/log/messages

     /etc/conf.modules or /etc/modules.conf

     dmesg

     LILO

     GRUB

    ;Weight: 3

    Description: Candidates should be able to administer the runlevel of the system. This cold includes alteration to individual user mode, abeyance or rebooting the system. Candidates should be able to active users afore switching runlevel, and appropriately abolish processes. This cold aswell includes ambience the absence runlevel.

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

     /etc/inittab

     shutdown

     init

    ;Weight: 1

    Description: Candidates should be able to administer book queues and user book jobs. This cold includes ecology book server and user book queues and troubleshooting accepted press problems.

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

     /etc/printcap

     lpc

     lpq

     lprm

     lp

    ;Weight:1

    Description: Candidates should be able to administer book queues and dispense book jobs. This cold includes abacus and removing jobs from configured printer queues and converting argument files to addition for printing.

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

     lpr

     lpq

     mpage

    ;Weight: 1

    Description: Applicant should be able to install a printer daemon, install and configure a book clarify (e.g.: apsfilter, magicfilter). This cold includes authoritative bounded and limited printers attainable for a Linux system, including postscript, non-postscript, and Samba printers.

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

     /etc/printcap

     /etc/apsfilter/ /var/lib/apsfilter/ /etc/magicfilter/ /var/spool/lpd/ lpd

    ;Weight: 4

    Description: Candidates should be able to use and administrate the man ability and the actual in /usr/share/doc/. This cold includes award accordant man pages, analytic man page sections, award commands and man pages accompanying to them, and configuring admission to man sources and the man system. It aswell includes using arrangement affidavit stored in /usr/share/doc/ and free what affidavit to accumulate in /usr/share/doc/.

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

     MANPATH man

     apropos

     whatis

    ;Weight: 3

    Description: Candidates should be able to acquisition and use Linux documentation. This cold includes using Linux affidavit at sources such as the Linux Affidavit Activity (LDP), bell-ringer and third-party websites, newsgroups, newsgroup archives, and commitment lists.

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

     not applicable

    ;Weight: 1

    Description: Candidates should be able to acquaint the users about accepted issues accompanying to the system. This cold includes automating the advice process, e.g. through logon messages.

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

     /etc/issue

     /etc/issue.net

     /etc/motd

    ;Weight: 5

    Description: Applicant should be able to adapt carapace environments to accommodated users needs. This cold includes ambience ambiance variables (e.g. PATH) at login or if breeding a new shell. It aswell includes autograph back-bite functions for frequently acclimated sequences of commands.

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

     ~/.bash_profile

     ~/.bash_login

     ~/.profile

     ~/.bashrc

     ~/.bash_logout

     ~/.inputrc

     action (Bash congenital command)

     consign

     env

     set (Bash congenital command)

     unset (Bash congenital command)

    ;Weight: 3

    Description: Applicant should be able to adapt absolute scripts, or address simple new (ba)sh scripts. This cold includes using accepted sh syntax (loops, tests), using command substitution, testing command acknowledgment values, testing of book status, and codicillary commitment to the superuser. This cold aswell includes authoritative abiding the actual analyst is alleged on the first (#!) band of scripts. This cold aswell includes managing location, ownership, beheading and suid-rights of scripts.

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

     while

     for

     analysis

     chmod

    ;Weight: 4

    Description: Applicant should be able to add, remove, append and change user accounts. Tasks cover to add and abolish groups, to change user/group advice in passwd/group databases. The cold aswell includes creating appropriate purpose and bound accounts.

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

     /etc/passwd

     /etc/shadow

     /etc/group

     /etc/gshadow

     chage

     gpasswd

     groupadd

     groupdel

     groupmod

     grpconv

     grpunconv

     passwd

     pwconv

     pwunconv

     useradd

     userdel

     usermod

    ;Weight: 3

    Description: Applicant should be able to adapt all-around and user profiles. This includes ambience ambiance variables, advancement skel directories for new user accounts and ambience command seek aisle with the able directory.

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

     /etc/profile

     /etc/skel

     env

     consign

     set

     unset

    ;Weight: 3

    Description: Applicant should be able to configure arrangement logs. This cold includes managing the blazon and akin of advice logged, manually scanning log files for notable activity, ecology log files, alignment for automated circling and archiving of logs and tracking down problems acclaimed in logs.

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

     /etc/syslog.conf

     /var/log/ logrotate

     appendage -f

    ;Weight: 4

    Description: Applicant should be able to use cron or anacron to run jobs at approved intervals and to use at to run jobs at a specific time. Assignment cover managing cron and at jobs and configuring user admission to cron and at services.

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

     /etc/anacrontab

     /etc/at.deny

     /etc/at.allow

     /etc/crontab

     /etc/cron.allow

     /etc/cron.deny

     /var/spool/cron/ at

     atq

     atrm

     crontab

    ;Weight: 3 Description:

    Description: Applicant should be able to plan a advancement action and advancement filesystems automatically to assorted media. Tasks cover auctioning a raw accessory to a book or carnality versa, assuming fractional and chiral backups, acceptance the candor of advancement files and partially or absolutely abating backups.

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

     cpio

     dd

     dump

     restore

     tar

    ;Weight: 4

    Description: Applicant should be able to appropriately advance the arrangement time and accord the alarm over NTP. Tasks cover ambience the arrangement date and time, ambience the BIOS alarm to the actual time in UTC, configuring the actual timezone for the arrangement and configuring the arrangement to actual alarm alluvion to bout NTP clock.

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

     /usr/share/zoneinfo

     /etc/timezone

     /etc/localtime

     /etc/ntp.conf

     /etc/ntp.drift

     date

     hwclock

     ntpd

     ntpdate

    ;Weight: 4

    Description: Candidates should authenticate a able compassionate of arrangement fundamentals. This cold includes the compassionate of IP-addresses, arrangement masks and what they beggarly (i.e. actuate a arrangement and advertisement abode for a host based on its subnet affectation in dotted cloister or abbreviated characters or actuate the arrangement address, advertisement abode and netmask if accustomed an IP-address and amount of bits). It aswell covers the compassionate of the arrangement classes and classless subnets (CIDR) and the aloof addresses for clandestine arrangement use. It includes the compassionate of the action and appliance of a absence route. It aswell includes the compassionate of basal internet protocols (IP, ICMP, TCP, UDP) and the added accepted TCP and UDP ports (20, 21, 23, 25, 53, 80, 110, 119, 139, 143, 161).

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

     /etc/services

     ftp

     telnet

     host

     ping

     dig

     traceroute

     whois

    ;Weight: 7

    Description: Candidates should be able to view, change and verify agreement settings and operational cachet for assorted arrangement interfaces. This cold includes chiral and automated agreement of interfaces and acquisition tables. This abnormally agency to add, start, stop, restart, annul or reconfigure arrangement interfaces. It aswell agency to change, appearance or configure the acquisition table and to actual an break set absence avenue manually. Candidates should be able to configure Linux as a DHCP applicant and a TCP/IP host and to alter problems associated with the arrangement configuration.

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

     /etc/HOSTNAME or /etc/hostname

     /etc/hosts

     /etc/networks

     /etc/host.conf

     /etc/resolv.conf

     /etc/nsswitch.conf

     ifconfig

     avenue

     dhcpcd, dhcpclient, pump

     host

     hostname (domainname, dnsdomainname)

     netstat

     ping

     traceroute

     tcpdump

     the arrangement scripts run during arrangement initialization.

    ;Weight: 3

    Description: Candidates should accept the basics of the PPP agreement and be able to configure and use PPP for outbound connections. This cold includes the analogue of the babble arrangement to affix (given a login example) and the bureaucracy commands to be run automatically if a PPP affiliation is made. It aswell includes initialisation and abortion of a PPP connection, with a modem, ISDN or ADSL and ambience PPP to automatically reconnect if disconnected.

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

     /etc/ppp/options. /etc/ppp/peers/ /etc/wvdial.conf

     /etc/ppp/ip-up

     /etc/ppp/ip-down

     wvdial

     pppd

    ;Weight: 4

    Description: Candidates should be able to configure which casework are accessible through inetd, use tcpwrappers to acquiesce or abjure casework on a host-by-host basis, manually start, stop, and restart internet services, configure basal arrangement casework including telnet and ftp. Set a account to run as addition user instead of the absence in inetd.conf.

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

     /etc/inetd.conf

     /etc/hosts.allow

     /etc/hosts.deny

     /etc/services

     /etc/xinetd.conf

     /etc/xinetd.log

    ;Weight: 4

    Description: Applicant should be able to adapt simple ambit in sendmail agreement files (including the Acute Host parameter, if necessary), make mail aliases, administer the mail queue, alpha and stop sendmail, configure mail forwarding and accomplish basal troubleshooting of sendmail. The cold includes blockage for and closing accessible broadcast on the mailserver. It does not cover avant-garde custom agreement of Sendmail.

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

     /etc/aliases or /etc/mail/aliases

     /etc/mail/ ~/.forward

     mailq

     sendmail

     newaliases

    ;Weight: 4

    Description: Candidates should be able to adapt simple ambit in Apache agreement files, start, stop, and restart httpd, align for automated restarting of httpd aloft boot. Does not cover avant-garde custom agreement of Apache.

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

     httpd.conf

     apachectl

     httpd

    ;Weight: 4

    Description: Applicant should understand how to arise limited filesystems using NFS, configure NFS for exporting bounded filesystems, start, stop, and restart the NFS server. Install and configure Samba using the included GUI accoutrement or absolute adapt of the /etc/smb.conf book (Note: this advisedly excludes avant-garde NT area issues but includes simple administration of home directories and printers, as able-bodied as accurately ambience the nmbd as a WINS client).

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

     /etc/exports

     /etc/fstab

     /etc/smb.conf

     arise

     umount

    ;Weight: 4

    Description: Applicant should be able to configure hostname lookups and troubleshoot problems with bounded caching-only name server. Requires an compassionate of the area allotment and DNS adaptation process. Requires compassionate key differences in agreement files for bind 4 and bind 8.

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

     /etc/hosts

     /etc/resolv.conf

     /etc/nsswitch.conf

     /etc/named.boot (v.4) or /etc/named.conf (v.8)

     named

    ;Weight: 4

    Description: The applicant should be able to access and configure OpenSSH. This cold includes basal OpenSSH accession and troubleshooting, as able-bodied as configuring sshd to alpha at arrangement boot.

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

     /etc/hosts.allow

     /etc/hosts.deny

     /etc/nologin

     /etc/ssh/sshd_config

     /etc/ssh_known_hosts

     /etc/sshrc

     sshd

     ssh-keygen

    ;Weight: 4

    Description: Candidates should understand how to analysis arrangement agreement to ensure host aegis in accordance with bounded aegis policies. This cold includes how to configure TCP wrappers, acquisition files with SUID/SGID bit set, verify packages, set or change user passwords and countersign crumbling information, amend binaries as recommended by CERT, BUGTRAQ, and/or distributions aegis alerts. Includes basal ability of ipchains and iptables.

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

     /proc/net/ip_fwchains

     /proc/net/ip_fwnames

     /proc/net/ip_masquerade

     acquisition

     ipchains

     passwd

     atrium

     iptables

    ;Weight: 3

    Description: Applicant should understand how to set up a basal akin of host security. Tasks cover syslog configuration, adumbral passwords, set up of a mail alias for roots mail and axis of all arrangement casework not in use.

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

     /etc/inetd.conf or /etc/inet.d/ /etc/nologin

     /etc/passwd

     /etc/shadow

     /etc/syslog.conf

    ;Weight: 1

    Description: Applicant should be able to configure user akin security. Tasks cover banned on user logins, processes, and anamnesis usage.

    Key files, terms, and utilities include:

     allocation

     usermod

    

 


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