Code: BIE-ADU.21 Unix Administration
Lecturer: doc. RNDr. Ing. Petr Zemánek CSc. Weekly load: 2P+2C Completion: A, EX
Department: 18104 Credits: 5 Semester: S
Description:
Students will learn the internal structure of the UNIX operating system, with the administration of its basic subsystems and with the security principles. They will understand the differences between user and administrator roles. They will get theoretical and practical knowledge of user management and administration, of users access rights, file systems, disk subsystems, processes, memory, network services and remote access, and in the areas of system deployment and virtualization. In the labs, they will verify the knowledge from the lectures on specific examples from practice.
Contents:
1. Administration principles, user identity, user administration.
2. Administrator rights and their acquisition, special access rights.
3. [2] Security, authentication modules, privileges, roles.
5. Disk administration, file systems.
6. The UFS file system, backup techniques, RAID technologies.
7. Advanced file systems (ZFS).
8. Network file systems (NFS).
9. Networking, network interfaces, network services configuration.
10. Operating system start and shutdown.
11. Processes, priorities, system limits, quotas.
12. Virtualization.
13. Kernel.
Seminar contents:
1. Introduction, User administration I
2. User administration II, Changing identity, sudo, ACL
3. RBAC, Privileges
4. Disk management, swap
5. Filesystems, fsck
6. Snapshot, Volume Manager
7. Filesystem ZFS
8. Configuring NFS
9. System services
10. Process limits, disk quotas
11. Network interface configuration, DNS client, syslog
12. Virtualization: Creating zones (Solaris)
13. System installation
Recommended literature:
1. Wang K.C. : Systems Programming in Unix/Linux. Springer, 2018. ISBN 978-3319924281.
2. Nemeth E., Snyder G., Hein T.R., Whaley B., Mackin D. : UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook (5th Edition). Addison-Wesley, 2017. ISBN 978-0134277554.
3. Kochan S.G., Wood P. : Shell Programming in Unix, Linux and OS X (4th Edition). Addison-Wesley, 2016. ISBN 978-0134496009.
4. Stallings W. : Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles (9th Edition). Pearson, 2017. ISBN 978-0134670959.
5. Ward B. : How Linux Works: What Every Superuser Should Know (2nd Edition). No Starch Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1593275679.
Keywords:
Unix, Linux, operating system, administration, file systems, ZFS

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