CS 489/689 Advanced Computer Science Topics:
System Administration and Security
Call#: 489: 31500. 689: 30006
Text: UNIX System Administration Handbook, by Evi Nemeth et al
Room: TBE B-174
Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor (normally, CSC 370)
This course will examine topics from UNIX system administration and
security, including:
- Administration
- Apache web servers
- using Samba to support Windows clients
- sendmail basics
- user account management
- file systems maintenance and NFS
- Security
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- protecting CGI scripts from attack
- using system security test tools (Satan, Crack)
- Firewalls, IP masquerading
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