Course Reference

Installing Red Hat

Red Hat 9 Manuals - Red Hat's manuals for Red Hat 9

Red Hat Support - The web page to start looking for help with Red Hat linux

Account Administration

Users and Groups - How to manage users on Red Hat.

User and Group Configuration - How to manage users on Red Hat using the graphical tool.

RPM

Quick Guide to RPM - A quick how-to to install a package from the CD using the rpm command.

Package Management with RPM A more thorough guide to RPM.

DNS (BIND)

BIND 9 Configuration Manual - BIND 9 Configuration Manual in HTML format. This is the same doc that comes with BIND.

BIND 9 Configuration Manual - Same as above in PDF format.

BIND Homepage - The home page for the BIND project.

HTTP (Apache)

Apache HTTP server - The home page for the Apache HTTP server. There are lots of docs here.

Apache HTTP Server Version 2.0 Documentation - All the oficial Apache documentation

FTP (vsFTPd)

The vsFTPd Homepage - The vsFTPd Homepage

vsFTPd Rocks! - A website that makes up for the poor documentation on the vsFTPd Homepage

Other FTP servers include wu-FTPd and ProFTPD Homepage - ProFTPD homepage.

SMTP (Postfix)

Postfix Homepage - The Postfix homepage.

Other email servers include sendmail, the original SMTP server, and Qmail.

POP & IMAP

UW IMAP - The University of Washington has released an IMAP server, IMAPd. It is included with many Linux distributions including Red Hat 9 (imap-2001a-18.i386.rpm, disk 2) and Fedora Core 1 (imap-2002d-3.i386.rpm, disk 3). This package also provides a POP3 server.

Courier Mail - Courier provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, webmail, and mailing list services within a single, consistent, framework.

Old Stuff

Proxy and NAT

Squid Homepage - Squid Proxy homepage.

How a Proxy Works - A VERY basic description of how a proxy works.

How NAT Works - A description of how Network Address Translation (NAT) works.

DHCP

Windows Services (Samba)

Samba Homepage - The Samba homepage.

The Story of Samba:
Linux's Stealth Weapon
- An article at Linux Magazine about Samba. Not a How-to, but a history of sorts and a bit about the protocols involved.

Printing (CUPS)

CUPS Homepage - The CUPS homepage.

LinuxPrinting.org - A website dedicated to helping with printing on Linux.

cupsaddsmb - To use CUPS with Samba check out the man page for cupsaddsmb.

Security

Bastille Linux - An excellent security and learning tool. This program will walk you through, step by step, securing your linux server.

Tripwire - Tripwire is an open source IDS (Intrusion Detection System) for Linux. Tripwire is also a commercial company that produce commercial security products.

Jay Beales - Security Articles by Jay Beales (main author of Bastille Linux.

SANS Reading Room - SANS offer courses and publications on various Security topics. This is a collection of articles they provide on the Internet.

Inernet Storm Center - Find out what the security problems on the Internet are right now.

Linux Administrator's Security Guide - A guide to security by Kurt Seifried.