A plan for finishing up

Projects in progress

shell programming
file system forensics
file system maintenance
file encryption

Presetation topics outside the book

How does the Blockchain Work (for Dummies) explained simplyHacking, Cryptography, and the Countdown to Quantum Computing
Why Bitcoin’s $1,000 Value Doesn’t Matter

Phishing scams eve fool tech nerds
How Hackers Broke Into John Podesta and Colin Powell’s Gmail Accounts
encyrpting a partition
setting up a web server
setting up a media server

Finishing up

With the exception of the topics presented above, all over course material will come from How Linux Works by Brian Ward which is available as a UNC Asheville online resource. It’s a great book. I would recommend getting it.

We’ve already covered many of the following topics.

Chapter 2 — Basic commands and directory hierarchy

2.1 to 2.14 — commands everyone should know
2.16 — process control ps
2.17 — file permissions, chmod
2.18 — archiving files, tar
2.19 — directory structure
2.20 — sudo

Chapter 3

3.1 to 3.4 — devices
3.5 udev (device changes)

Chapter 4 — disks and filesystems

4.1 — partitioning
4.2 — filesystems
4.3 — swap space
4.5 — inodes

Chapter 5 — kernel boot

5.4 — boot loaders
5.5 — GRUB
5.8 — MBR vs UEFI

Chapter 6 — systemd and init

6.4 — systemd
6.6 — System V init
6.7 — shutdown
6.8 — initrd, initial root disk

Chapter 7 — logging & login

7.2 — system log
7.3 — /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow
7.6 to 7.7 — cron and at
7.8 to 7.10 — PAM

Chapter 8 &mdashl controlling and monitoring processes

8.1 — ps (2.16) revisted
8.2 — lsof
8.3 — strace for OS students
8.5 to 8.7 — top, renice, uptime, vmstat, iostat, pidstat

Chapter 9 — networking

9.1 to 9.4 — network structure
9.5 — ping, traceroute, host
9.6 to 9.11 — network management
9.12 — using DNS
9.16 — using DHCP
9.19 — NAT
9.21 — firewalls

Chapter 10 — Network applications

10.1 — curl
10.3 — ssh
10.5 — lsof, nmap
10.6 — rpcinfo

Chapter 11 — A little shell scripting

11.1 to 11.9 — sh per se
11.10 — script utilities
11.14 — when (not) to use shell scripts

Chapter 12 — Network data transfer

12.1 — SimpleHTTPServer
12.2 — rsync
12.4 — Samba
12.5 — NFS

Chapter 13 — User environment

13.3 — path, prompt (PS1), alias, umask
13.4.1 — login shell /etc/profile first of .bash_profile, .bash_login or .profile non-login shell /etc/bash.bashrc and .bashrc

Chapter 14 — The desktop

14.2 to 14.3 — X Window system

Chapter 15 — Compilation

15.2 — make

Chapter 16 — “automatic” compilation

16.3 — auto-conf
16.5 — patch