CIW Server Administrator Part 2: User Management

The audience for this course includes LAN/WAN administrators system administrators systems managers intranet administrators network engineers and internetworking engineers. The prerequisite for this course is that students must have CIW Foundations certification or equivalent experience. CIW accepts CompTIA's i-Net+ certification in place of the CIW Foundations course. This course covers exam number 1D0-450. In addition students should have taken the first part of this series (87001).

• Identify authentication methods.
• Identify features of the peertopeer network security model.
• Identify features of shares in peertopeer settings.
• Identify features of the Security Accounts Manager (SAM).
• Add a user account.
• Modify user rights.
• Match files for manually adding Unix users with their purposes.
• Identify features of automated account creation.
• Add a user by using the linuxconf program.

Unit 1: User Management Essentials

• Identify authentication methods.
• Identify features of the peer-to-peer network security model.
• Identify features of shares in peer-to-peer settings
• Identify features of the user-level access security model
• Identify considerations for establishing user-level shares
• Create a user name-based network share.
• Customize share permissions.
• Match universal permissions with their descriptions.
• Match Windows 2000 access permissions with their descriptions.
• Identify features of Unix permissions.
• Match Novell rights with their descriptions.
• Identify the key password practices.
• Match the key network policies with their descriptions.
• Identify the characteristics of a standard operating procedure (SOP).
• Identify considerations for creating a logon account policy.

Unit 2: Managing Users in Windows 2000

• Identify features of the Security Accounts Manager (SAM).
• Add a user account.
• Modify user rights.
• Select a remote system to administer.
• Identify considerations for managing the user environment.
• Enforce system policies in Windows 2000.
• Identify considerations for policy planning.
• Identify considerations for auditing in Windows 2000 Server.
• Identify functions of the Shared Folders snap-in.
• Establish a shared folder by using the Computer Management snap-in.
• Control access to shares by using the Computer Management snap-in.
• Identify features of New Technology File System (NTFS) partitions.
• Enable auditing in Microsoft Windows 2000.
• Identify features of permissions in Windows Explorer.
• Identify the steps required to change ownership by using Windows Explorer.

Unit 3: Managing Users in Linux

• Match files for manually adding Unix users with their purposes.
• Identify features of automated account creation.
• Add a user by using the linuxconf program.
• Delete a user account from the accounts database by using the linuxconf program.
• Identify features of groups.
• Identify functions of Linux system accounts.
• Identify functions of the password file.
• Identify considerations for developing account policies.
• Apply password aging in Linux.

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The CDROM version of this course requires:

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
• At least a double speed CDROM drive.
• An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently only the CDROM version supports audio).

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).