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• Introduction to & Installation of Debian GNU/Linux - Disc 1 University of Iowa
• Identify Debian GNU/Linux distribution sites Univ. of New Haven
• Explain various methods of obtaining Debian GNU/Linux Unilever
• Explain the various Debian GNU/Linux strains (Woody/Sarge/Sid) US Courts
• Explain how the efficient Jigsaw Download (jigdo) process operates Weidlinger Associates
• Install Jigsaw Download tool on RedHat system to obtain Debian ISO images Yale University
• Demonstrate how to obtain Debian GNU/Linux using the efficient Jigsaw Download (Jigdo)
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• Prep the Intel-based system for a Workstation installation of Debian GNU/Linux
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• Install Debian Linux on Intel-based x86 machine using CD-ROMs
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• Use CFDISK to create user-partitions on the Debian Workstation system · Tell a friend
• Use CFDISK to create a system-Swap partition
• Configure the installation process with Workstation-oriented packages
• Prepare the Intel-based system for a Server installation of Debian GNU/Linux
• Install Debian Linux on Intel-based x86 machine using CD-ROMs
• Use Fdisk to create server-oriented partitions on the Debian Server system
• Use Fdisk to create a system-Swap partition
• Configure the installation process with Server-oriented packages
• Prep the Intel-based system for a Network installation of Debian GNU/Linux
• Identify Network Installation ISO Image repositories
• Download Network Installation ISO Image & burn to CDRW
• Use Fdisk to create server-oriented partitions on the Debian Server system
• Use Fdisk to create a system-Swap partition
• Identify and specify Debian mirrors to obtain installation packages from
• Install Debian Linux on Intel-based x86 machine using HTTP
• Configure the installation process with Server-oriented packages
• Prepare the Sun Fire SPARC-based headless system for a Remote Network installation
of Debian GNU/Linux using SSH, CKermit & serial connectivity
• Install Debian GNU/Linux SPARC edition using the Disc-1 Binary
• Configure server-oriented drive partitions using Fdisk
• Configure optimal server-oriented Swap partition using Fdisk
• Configure the Sun Fire SPARC system with network connectivity
• Update Debian SPARC system with latest security patches using APT
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• Debian GNU/Linux Client Fundamentals - Disc 2
• Explore the Debian GNU/Linux KDE Desktop Interface & Default Applications
• Identify Documentation - Man Pages & Graphical
• Explore Debian GNU/Linux GNOME Desktop Interface & Default Applications
• Upgrade Mozilla web browser software
• Implement Macromedia Flash plug-in and configure support in Mozilla and evaluate results
• Implement the current Java Runtime Environment (JRE/J2SE) for system-wide access to
Java applets/etc.
• Basic Debian GNU/Linux Skills
• Demonstrate usage of the following useful commands & concepts
• ls, pwd, cd, cp, mv, rm, mkdir, rmdir, whoami, man, info
• alias, cat, file, chmod, chown, history
• Standard in/out, UNIX Pipes, Redirection, Command Chaining
• ps, df, free, vmstat, top, kill
• less & more, head & tail, diff
• which & whereis, w, who
• find, grep, locate
• tar, gzip/gunzip, bzip2, zcat
• PING (Packet Internet Groper) - used to issue ICMP echo requests
• dig (Domain Information Groper) - used to query DNS servers
• Demonstrate typical usage of the vi text editor
• Demonstrate typical usage the nano text editor
• Tarball Archiving & compression of files & directories with TAR/GZIP/BZIP2
• Explain UNIX/Linux file security & permissions (-rwxrwxrwx)
• Use mount/umount to access CD-ROM and floppy devices
• Explore /etc/fstab (File system Table file)
• Explore TCP/IP Configuration
• Install Wget and demonstrate its typical usage to interface to HTTP/FTP servers
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• Advanced Package Management Tool (APT) Concepts
• Explain classess of Debian GNU/Linux Packages
• Identify Debian GNU/Linux Package Management Tools
• Inventory currently installed DEB packages
• Demonstrate Packge Group Selection with tasksel
• Discuss Package Refinement with dselect
• Identify key Advanced Package Tool (APT) configuration files
• Search for Debian GNU/Linux packages using Advanced Package Tool (APT)
• Install/Update/Remove software using APT
• Configure APT to query multiple sources for packages
• Use DPKG to install a DEB package located on an EXT3 File System
• Configure APT to install packages from varying versions of Debian GNU/Linux
• Use Aptitude to manage Debian GNU/Linux packages
• Install Apt-Spy using APT to identify optimal mirrors
• Disk Management using CFDISK & FDISK
• Provision additional Storage partitions using CFDISK
• Partition using FDISK additional user space
• Use MKE2FS to provision multiple 20GB EXT2 & EXT3 File Systems
• Use TUNE2FS to convert existing EXT2 File Systems to EXT3 File Systems
• Provision additional Swap storage
• Use MKSWAP & SWAPON to enable additional Swap storage
• Provision multiple Temp File System (TMPFS) using free memory
• Demonstrate typical usage of Temp File Systems for fast I/O
• Update File System Table (FSTAB) to reflect system changes
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• Remote Desktop (RDP) Client Implementation
• Download and intall RDesktop prerequisites (dev packages, etc.)
• Compile, implement & explore RDesktop Terminal Services desktop connectivity
to Windows 2003/2000/XP servers running Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)
• Secure Shell (SSH) Client
• Explain SSH concepts, implementation, etc.
• Use SSH Client to connect to remote Linux Systems using password authentication
• Identify key SSH-client files (.known_hosts, public/private key pairs,etc.)
• Authenticate to remote Linux systems using alternate credentials
• Use Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) to move data between systems non-
interactively
• Use Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) to move data between systems
interactively
• Demonstrate how to generate Public/Private key (RSA/DSA) pairs using SSH-
Keygen
• Demonstrate using SSH to authenticate to remote Linux hosts without passwords
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• Debian GNU/Linux Systems Administration & Core Network Services - Disc 3
• System V Debian GNU/Linux Runlevel implementation
• Explain Debian GNU/Linux System V Init Runlevel (0 - 6) concepts & applications
• Identify key startup files, including scripts (inittab,Sscripts,Kscripts,etc.)
• Identify startup log files & entries using DMESG & exploration
• TCP/IP Configuration
• Identify key files for the transition from DHCP to Static addressing
• Configure Linux client with static TCP/IP parameters for network communication
• Configure Virtual (Sub) Ethernet Interfaces to faciliate multiple IP addresses
• Implement Network Time Protocol (NTP) Client/Server
• Configure Network Time Protocol (NTP) to perform client/server time
synchronization
• Identify NTP bounded UDP interfaces
• Synchronize Debian GNU/Linux NTP with RedHat Linux Stratum 2 NTP server
• Configure RedHat Linux NTP server to synchronize with Debian GNU/Linux server
• Manage Users and Groups
• User profile implementation logic and concepts - (Bash
profile/etc/skel/aliases/PATH/etc.)
• User and group creation & management concepts - passwd, shadow, group,
gshadow files
• Use useradd/adduser, groupadd/addgroup, usermod, etc.
• Examine adduser configuration file
• Explore System Logging via SYSLOG and Logrotate
• Explanation of syslog facilities & levels
• Demonstrate syslog administration
• Demonstrate Cisco to Linux SYSLOG functionality
• Explore automatic log rotation and customization via Logrotate
• Configure Logrotate to rotate & compress sample log files
• Commonly-used Network Utilities
• NETSTAT
• Traceroute & MTR (PING & Traceroute functionality)
• ARP
• IFCONFIG
• Route
• DIG & NSLOOKUP
• Whois
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• Implement Telnet Daemon for temporary clear-text shell communications
• Examine Message of the day banners (MOTD), /etc/issue file (pre-login banner/display
info.)
• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) services
• Explain the various steps of the DHCP process
• Configure global & scope-level DHCP options
• Configure IP reservations based on layer 2 MAC addresses
• Enable Linux DHCP services
• Configure Windows/Linux clients to receive dynamic addresses from Linux
• Examine evidence of clients requesting addresses from DHCPD
• Very Secure VSFTPD File Transfer Protocol (FTP) services
• Implement anonymous FTPD
• Implement user-level FTPD access
• Implement FTPD banners
• Disable anonymous access
• Configure VSFTPD to chroot jail users into their home directories
• Implement bandwidth rate-limiting to control bandwidth usage
• Implement & test banning of unwelcomed anonymous e-mail addresses
• Implement VSFTPD user with redirect to a Samba share
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• Implement Linux & Windows Integration via Samba
• Implement SMBFS integration with Debian GNU/Linux File System
• Mount Windows shares seamlessly using Samba File System (SMBFS)
• Configure FSTAB to support repetitive mounts
• Implement secure SMBFS credentials for mounting
• Install Samba Server support
• Install Samba Web-based Administration Tool (SWAT)
• Configure Samba file sharing
• Configure Samba with multiple NETBIOS aliases
• Configure Samba Windows Internet Name Server (WINS) support
• Evaluate Windows XP client access to Debian GNU/Linux Samba server
• Explore the CRON scheduling daemon & configuration
• Identify key Cron configuration scopes (Global & User)
• Explain Crontab file format and applicable options
• Define custom cron jobs system-wide
• Define custom cron jobs user-wide
• Evaluate results of cron jobs
• Implement the Berkeley Internet Daemon (BIND) Domain Name Server (DNS)
• Implement BIND 9.x
• Configure BIND as a caching-only DNS server
• Test caching-only name resolution from Linux hosts
• Configure Linux/Windows 2003 clients to use Linux BIND DNS server
• Configure BIND as an Authoritative DNS server
• Test primary name resolution from Windows & Linux hosts
• Configure BIND as a secondary(slave) DNS server
• Configure DNS zones on Linux BIND & Windows 2003 DNS - activate replication
• Evaluate results of BIND configuration using DIG
• Configure DNS zones
• Configure zone transfers
• Evaluate BIND's configuration files
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• Application Services - Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP/Sendmail - Disc 4
• Web Application Services
• Implement Apache Web Server
• Examine httpd.conf file directives
• Implement virtual directories using Apache and symbollic links
• Implement Redirects using Locate and various Apache directives
• Configure virtual hosts bound to the primary IP address and port
• Configure virtual hosts bound to alternate virtual IP addresses and ports
• Implement Apache logging system per virtual host
• Configure basic authentication to virtual hosts containers via Directory directives
• Configure digest authentication
• Implementation of Webalizer Log Analysis software
• Generate web reports using Webalizer
• Implementation of PHP Dynamic Web Access Scripting Engine
• Evaluate PHP Dynamic Web Access Scripting Engine installation results
• Test basic PHP script-processing using sample scripts
• MySQL Relational Database Management System
• Install MySQL Relational Database Management System
• Secure access to MySQL
• Create sample MySQL databases
• Install PHPMyAdmin for web-based management of MySQL instances
• Explain & Secure access to PHPMyAdmin
• Explore PHPMyAdmin's interface
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• Messaging Applications
• Sendmail MTA Essentials
• Introduction to Sendmail Message Transfer Agent (MTA)
• Implementation of Sendmail
• Identify default Debian GNU/Linux Sendmail logging
• Use Mutt to demonstrate outbound mail handling using Sendmail
• Attempt to relay messages from a remote Windows host
• Identify failed relays fromt the remote Windows host
• Configure Sendmail to relay messages for remote Windows host
• Configure Sendmail to support virtual hosts/multiple domains
• Evaluate results of routing messages to multiple domains using Sendmail
• Redirect virtual SMTP addressess to Internet-based SMTP hosts
• Verify message delivery using Mutt & SSH
• Post Office Protocol Version 3 (POP3)
• Explain POP3 concepts and applications
• Implement POP3 daemon
• Connect to POP3 daemon using Windows Outlook Express client
• Reroute inbound messages using Sendmail to POP3 account for retrieval
• Use Mutt to send SMTP-based messages to POP3 account
• Internet Messaging Access Protocol (IMAP)
• Explain IMAP concepts and applications in comparison to POP3
• Implement IMAP services
• Connect to IMAP services from remote Windows Outlook Express client
• Web-based Mail Implementation using Squirrel-mail
• Describe required squirrel mail components for web-mail integration
• Install squirrel mail on Debian GNU/Linux system
• Configure Apache virtual directory for squirrel mail integration
• Configure Apache Virtual Host for squirrel mail integration
• Configure BIND DNS services for squirrel mail integration
• Explore squirrel mail's web-based interface
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• Security Implementation Techniques - Disc 5
• TCP Wrappers (hosts.allow/hosts.deny)
• Discuss TCP Wrappers concepts & applications
• Identify primary package and key TCP Wrappers configuration files
• Demonstrate disabled TCP Wrappers configurations by attempting connectivity
• Examine pre and post TCP Wrappers configuration effects
• Implement TCP Wrappers for common services
• Test local & remote access to TCP Wrappers-protected host & services
• XINETD (Enhanced & Secure INETD Super Server Implementation)
• Upgrade Debian GNU/Linux system from INETD to XINETD
• Identify key XINETD configuration files
• Explain the contents and structure of xinetd.conf
• Restrict access to various daemons/services based on hosts & subnets
• Compare & contrast TCP Wrappers and XINETD
• Secure services with XINETD
• Insert common global xinetd.conf daemon/service defaults
• Configure XINETD to log via SYSLOG
• Configure XINETD to restrict number of spawned instances of daemons/services
• Configure port forwarding of daemons/services
• Configure XINETD to bind daemons/services to specific sub-interfaces (Virtual IP addresses)
• Explore additional XINETD features
• IPTABLES (Netfilter Linux Kernel-based Firewall)
• Discuss IPTABLES/Netfilter Concepts
• Explain IPTABLES default chains/filters and policies
• Examine TCP/ICMP communications pre-IPTABLES chains
• Implement ICMP inbound filtration based on various hosts
• Use Cisco PIX Firewall to verify ICMP debugging
• Filter traffic based on Layer-4 TCP/UDP (Source/Destination Ports) information
• Restrict access to various daemons (SSH/FTP/HTTP/etc.)
• Test connectivity locally and remotely (RedHat/Windows/etc.)
• Network Mapper (NMAP)
• Obtain, compile and install current version of NMAP
• Identify commonly used NMAP options/switches/parameters
• Perform default TCP SYN-based ethical scans of local and remote resources
• Explain typical TCP handshake protocol while using NMAP
• Examine the results of scans on remote Cisco firewall with debugging mode enabled
• Perform default TCP Connect-based ethical scans of local and remote resources
• Examine the results of scans on remote Cisco PIX Firewall with debugging mode enabled
• Use NMAP to scan using aliased and spoofed IP addresses
• Peform local ethical scans
• Identifiy key NMAP configuration files
• Use NMAP to perform operating system fingerprinting
• Peform subnet-wide ethical scans
• Nessus Vulnerability Scanner
• Download, compile, and prepare Nessus vulnerability scanner for deployment
• Implement Nessus client/server Security vulnerability scanner in SSL-mode
• Identify Nessus's key features and explore its graphical interface
• Ethical scan of the local system for vulnerabilities
• Examine scan results via the reporting engine
• Discuss mitigation techniques for suggested vulnerabilities
• Ethical scan of a fraction of the class C subnet by using CIDR
• Examine the scan results and discuss
• Ethical scan of the entire class C subnet
• Examine Nessus process utilization while vulnerability scans are in progress
• Lockdown (Debian GNU/Linux System Lockdown)
• Explain potential network-based entry points to the system
• Identify superfluous daemons/services using NETSTAT & NMAP
• Disable superfluous daemons/services using update-rc.d and proper scripts
• Identify changes in the system as a result of performing the lockdown
• Disable superfluous daemons/services using XINETD
• Restrict source address access to daemons/services using XINETD
• Restrict bind address for daemons/services using XINETD
• Discuss application-layer security for added protection
(MySQL/Apache/Sendmail/SSH/Nessus)
• Force SSHD to bind to desired layer-3 IP address for controlled security
• Secure the system using IPTABLES & TCP Wrappers for added security
• Snort 2.1x Intrusion Detection System (IDS)
• Obtain, and install Snort pre-requisites (libpcap/libpcre/etc.)
• Obtain, compile and install the Snort Intrusion Detection System (IDS)
• Identify and explain key operating modes (Sniffer/Logger/IDS)
• Run Snort in all three modes and examine the results
• Output Snort logs to ASCII text format and examine the results
• Output Snort logs to binary format and examine the results
• Use Snort with Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) to parse logs
• Implement Snort with BPF to filter real-time traffic
• Obtain and install requisite MySQL libraries for Snort
• Recompile Snort IDS with MySQL support
• Implement Snort IDS with MySQL integration for real-time reporting
• Implement ACID web-based front-end for examining Snort logs
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