CS 302 LECTURE TOPICS AND READING ASSIGNMENTS, Spring 2005 Week Topic Assignment 1/17 Introduction, ASSERT Lab [E] Chapter 1 1/24 VMware configuration, RedHat installation [E] Chapter 2, Handouts 1/31 Basic commands, system info/logging [E] Chapter 3 2/7 Startup and Shutdown, boot scripts [E] Chapter 4 2/14 Filesystems, access control [E] Chapter 4 2/21 User accounts, uid, gid, root access, suid 2/28 Unix security basics [E] Chapter 7 3/7 cron, timed, log rotation, printer configuration[E] Chapters 3,13 3/14 Spring Break 3/21 TCP/IP networks [E] Chapter 5 3/28 Network host configuration [P] Chapter 11 4/4 inet services, ssh [P] Chapter 12 4/11 Software installation [P] Chapter 17 4/18 Network filesystems, NFS, NIS, SMB, IPsec [P] Chapters 14,15 4/25 Student Projects 5/2 Student Projects [E] Frisch, "Essential System Administration" [P] Garfinkel, "Practical Unix and Internet Security"