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CIS126DL Linux Assignments
Lecture Overview Index | Linux SysAdmin Homepage

  1. The User/Group Account creation/management assignment (40pts)
  2. OPTIONAL: Install pine (check basic linux setup page for ideas on how to find pine rpm) Move the pico program to pico.orig, create a new file called pico, put pico.orig -z $1 $2 inside (Go to network page on syllabus)(5pts extra credit)
  3. Setup both printers (10pts)
  4. Add httpd to runlevel 3 (10pts)
    And make sure the following Services are NOT in run level 3
  5. Turn on vsftpd in runlevel 3 and put a file in the proper directory to test it. (10pts)
  6. Install All updates and configure the rpmforge, jpackage and centosplus repositories(20pts)
  7. Install Snort, the snort rules, have it running for runlevel 3 (10pts)
  8. Install Chkrootkit and run it (10pts)
  9. Install portsentry (remember to remove the # from the line talking about iptables before compiling) (check out lecture overview week 7)
    After installing, add the line 140.198.0.0/16 to the file /usr/local/psionic/portsentry2/portsentry.ignore. Add /usr/local/psionic/portsentry2/portsentry to /etc/rc.d/rc.local and later, comment it out with a # sign(20pts)
  10. set the /tmp directory to be mounted "noexec" in /etc/fstab (5pts)
  11. Make sure that "PermitRootLogin no" is set in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (5pts)
  12. Set up a crontab file for one program/script for the root user (5pts)
  13. Have the writediary program working (store in root directory)(10pts)
  14. The above assignments point value will be doubled. (Worth 300)
  15. Create a standardized style "start|stop|restart|status" script for portsentry and add it to runlevel 3 (30pts)
  16. Your newuser script will be worth 60 pts.
Final Grade Totals
Exam 1		50pts
Exam 2	       100pts
Exam 3	       160pts
Assignments    300pts
final Scripts   90pts 
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Total	       700pts