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Linux Administration Cookbook

You're reading from   Linux Administration Cookbook Insightful recipes to work with system administration tasks on Linux

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789342529
Length 826 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Adam K. Dean Adam K. Dean
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction and Environment Setup FREE CHAPTER 2. Remote Administration with SSH 3. Networking and Firewalls 4. Services and Daemons 5. Hardware and Disks 6. Security, Updating, and Package Management 7. Monitoring and Logging 8. Permissions, SELinux, and AppArmor 9. Containers and Virtualization 10. Git, Configuration Management, and Infrastructure as Code 11. Web Servers, Databases, and Mail Servers 12. Troubleshooting and Workplace Diplomacy 13. BSDs, Solaris, Windows, IaaS and PaaS, and DevOps 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Modifying file permissions

Creating files is all well and good, but eventually we'll come across a use case where the default permissions just aren't acceptable.

A good example of this is SSH, which will downright refuse to function unless some particularly rigid file permissions are in place on your public and private keys.

So, here come "The Three Musketeers", in the form of chown, chmod, and chattr.

If you want to be really annoying, and lose friends easily, insist on calling these by their full titles: change ownership, change mode, and change attributes.

Getting ready

In this section, we are going to again use our CentOS VM from our Vagrantfile, as everything we're doing is universally applicable...

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