IBM AIX Systems Administration Security Issues
AIX
This course will teach the commands and methods needed to setup and enforce a security domain on an IBM AIX system. The course will use a problem solving approach in the lab exercises to give systems administrators hands-on reinforcement of these methods.
You can get a complete list of other AIX classes at http://www.wintrac.com/courses/coursesAIX1.asp
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IBM AIX Systems Administration Security Issues
Advanced System Concepts for System Administrators
- Process concepts
- Shell command usage and review
- Overview of issues related to Unix security
- System administrator functions related to security
- Security levels in a Unix system
- Rebuilding the Unix kernel with auditing
- Using the root account securely
- Password issues
- changing
- encryption
- aging and expirations
- shadow files
- Groups
- File permissions review
- Special permissions: SUID, SGID, Sticky Bits
- Device files
- Using chown and chgrp
- Backups
- Users
- lastlog, utmp, wtmp, pacct, syslog
- System
- shutdownlog
- sulog/ messages
- Proper maintenance of the /etc/ hosts file
- Using the "r" commands
- The restricted shell
- NFS security implications
- Known problems with SMTP (sendmail)
- finger utility security issues
- TFTP issues
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