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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) (for laptop users you will need to make a note for the grading script)
  4. Add httpd to runlevel 3 (10pts) (This turns on the web server during boot)
    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. (it's a public ftp directory in var) (10pts)
  6. Install All updates and configure the epel 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 and 192.168.0.0/16 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. Install the Keepass rpm (10pts)
  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. (not always assigned due to time constraints)
Final Grade Totals
Exam 1		50pts
Exam 2	       100pts
Exam 3	       160pts 
Assignments    300pts
Final exam1    125pts
final Scripts   30pts 
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Total	       480pts