Description

This handy cookbook teaches new-to-intermediate Linux users the essential skills necessary to manage a Linux system, using both graphical and command-line tools. Whether you run Linux in embedded, desktop, server, or cloud or virtual environments, the fundamental skills are the same. This book aims to get you up and running quickly, with copy-paste examples.

Carla Schroder provides recipes that cover specific problems, with discussions that explain how each recipe works, as well as references for additional study.

You’ll learn how to:

   Use systemd, the new comprehensive service manager
   Build simple or complex firewalls with firewalld
   Set up secure network connections for Linux systems and mobile devices
   Rescue nonbooting systems
   Reset lost passwords on Linux and Windows
   Use dnsmasq to simplify managing your LAN name services
   Manage users and groups and control access to files
   Probe your computer hardware and monitor hardware health
   Manage the GRUB bootloader and multiboot Linux and Windows
   Keep accurate time across your network with the newest tools
   Build an internet router/firewall on Raspberry Pi
   Manage filesystems and partitioning

Book Details

   Language: English
   Published: 2021
   ISBN: 1492087165
   Format: True PDF