Advanced Linux

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Mon Jan 10 -- Install Ubuntu. Go over suggested topic list.
Wed Jan 12 -- Deal with Brian and Darren!!! Updating the system. User delete assignment. tr command. sed command. Bash file tests. Example scripts.
Fri Jan 14 -- Packet filtering theory. torrent and firewalls. IPtables. Graphical firewall.
Mon Jan 17 -- Firewall assignment. Testing the gufw stuff. Iptables.
Wed Jan 19 -- Lab day.
Thr Jan 20 -- More ipTables. Rate limiting. Changing the default policy. Making new chains. Loading policies at boot time. Accounting. reloading counters. Logging.
Fri Jan 21 -- ipTables lab day #2.
Mon Jan 24 -- Quiz on ipTables.
Wed Jan 26 -- --dport vs --sport. Booting off a cd-rom. chroot. Uses for chroot (ftp, guest logins, etc.). Best practices. Example with bind. Comparing chroot and virtualization. fixing grub.
Thr Jan 27 -- Work on student presentations.
Fri Jan 28 -- Ditto.
Mon Jan 31 -- Student presentations.
Later -- Rate limiting using tc. DNS games, Cool tricks.
Mon Feb 7 -- Last student talk. What is LAMP? Mysql vs postgres vs nosql. benchmarks. Mysql install and config (especially the 127.0.0.1 thing). Mysql permission scheme (with user and tables_priv). phpmyadmin (and linknig the dumb file). Apache install and config. Virtual hosts. PHP.
Thr Feb 10 -- Virtual hosting.
Fri Feb 11 - How SSL/TLS works and How to make a cert and Tutorial 2.
Wed Feb 16 -- SSL and Vhosts. Review for test.
Thr Feb 17 -- Test!
Mon Feb 21 -- Squid.
Wed Feb 23 -- Do the squid lab.
Mon Mar 6 -- Finish squid lab. Go over iptables and the web cache.
Wed Mar 9 -- Remind about Hospital. Postfix forward files(more). Maildir. Pop3 and IMAP. MX records. SpamAssassin. Blacklists. The assignment.
Mon Mar 14 -- Review hospital trip. Lab day.
Fri Mar 18 -- Spam lecture
Mon Mar 22 -- tarpit. ssh, with config file and X forwarding. port scanning with legal and ethical implications. port knocking and port knocking implementations and ubuntu page. pgp and thunderbird and pgp and the web of trust with key signing parties and key servers.
Wed Mar 24 -- Quiz. DC workstations. DC power supplies.
Fri Mar 25 -- DKIM and google's dkim and DNSSEC. Security breech.
Wed Mar 30 --Acceptable use policies
Thr Mar 31 -- Speaches begin.
Thr Apr 7 -- virtualization hardware, benchmarks of vt-x, do you have vt-x, Compare virtual machines.DosBox, Wine, kvm, kvm hardware requirements, VirtualBox (most popular)(hardware devices emulated)(NAT)(USB and RDP)(seemless mode),Ubuntu's answer, ratio, kvm install, vmbuilder, vmware install.
Mon Apr 11 -- Virtual Machine assignment.
Thr Apr 14 -- Backups.
Mon Apr 18 -- Lab day for realzies

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