NginX Location

• Environment
• Echo Locations
• Location Modifiers
• Try Files
• Trailing Slash
• (Deny | Permit) dotfiles
• (Deny | Permit) Suffixes
• Prefixes
• Root Locations
• Alias Locations
• Single File Location
• Return Location
• Conditional Location
• PHP Location
• Restrict Methods
• COOKIE-Based Location
• 444 Location

cURL-Win

• cURL Basics
• Header Requests
• Content Resumption
• (GET | POST)s
• Downloads
• S(CP | FTP)

Standard Permissions

• Discretionary Access Controls (DACs)
• UMASK
• Read-Only
• Write-Only
• Execute-Only
• Soft Links
• Hard Links
• SETUID
• Correlate Bits
• SETGID
• Sticky Bit

‘tar’

• Features
• Archive Samples
• Update Archive
• Append Content
• Attributes
• Extractions
• Compression
• Remote SSH
• Symlinks

dd

• Discuss Features
• Create Various Files
• Compression
• SWAP File
• Archive Partition
• Archive Disk
• Disk Copy
• Drive Erase
• Remote SSH
• Speed Test
• X-Bytes

SymLinks

• Soft Links
• Permissions
• Hard Links
• Copy | Move | Remove
• RSYNC Links
• Apache SymLinks
• NginX SymLinks

Python Compression

• GZip
• Bzip2

Base Name Manipulations

• $SHELL Names
• Concatenate LOGs
• Python Base Names
• PHP Base Names
• Path List

CentOS8x Stream Administration

• Server Installation
  • Key CentOS features
  • Provision CentOS Server
  • Install CentOS Server with GUI
  • Post-Installation Housekeeping
  • SSH Environment
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• Basic Linux Skills
  • ls, pwd, cd, cp, mv, rm, mkdir, rmdir, whoami
  • alias, cat, file, chmod, chown, history
  • STD(IN|OUT), Pipes, Redirection, Command Chaining
  • ps, df, top, free
  • less & more, head & tail, find, which & whereis, w, who
  • Compression | Archival Tools
  • Checksums
  • Awk | Sed | Grep Usage
  • User | Group Management
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• File System Permissions | Ownership
  • Identify common file types
  • Identify default permissions applied to objects
  • Alter permissions | ownership on various objects and evaluate
  • SETUID | SETGID | Sticky Bit
  • Symlinks
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• Storage Management
  • Identify SWAP environment
  • Provision dedicated SWAP partitions | Add to Pool
  • Add | Remove SWAP from pool as needed
  • Provision File System-based SWAP
  • Identify default storage configuration
  • Provision new storage as needed
  • Identify LVM defaults
  • Add new partitions to LVM management
  • Allocate storage to LVM Volume Groups
  • Create Logical Volumes (LVs) as needed
  • Overlay File System and mount where applicables
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• ZSHELL
  • Features
  • Install
  • Defaults
  • General Usage
  • Update Accounts
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• System Scheduler
  • Discuss features | limitations
  • Identify default system-wide schedule
  • Peruse various default Cron Jobs
  • Schedule simple job and monitor recurrence
  • Evaluate results
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• SYSLOG | Log Rotation
  • Peruse default syslog configuration
  • Discuss syslog rules mechanism
  • Trap externally-generated log data
  • Explore Log Rotate defaults
  • Ensure rotated logs are compressed
  • Extend default retention scheme
  • Force Log Rotation as needed
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• Package Management
  • Explore default environment
  • Search for packages of interest and install
  • Dump important metadata from packages
  • Update YUM repository as needed
  • Setup internal YUM repo for expedited delivery
  • Apply updates as available
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• IP Administration
  • Identify default configuration
  • Add IPs as needed
  • Ensure IP persistence across resets
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• NginX
  • Install
  • Copy Configuration
  • SELinux Quell
  • TLS | SSL Services
  • cURL Client Tests
  • PHP-FPM Enable
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• Security
  • Use NMap to gather information from network
  • Configure FirewallD
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GParallel

• Discuss Features
• 'xargs' - Usage
• 'parallel' - Usage
• Parallel Process
• Replacement Strings
• $USER Operations

Command-Sub

• Discuss Features
• Back(Quote | Tick)s
• Parenthetical Notation
• Aliases