Novell Linux certification practicum lab manual: Accompanied by double-sided DVD-ROM

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by  Dulaney, Emmett

Tasks and Objectives at a Glance
CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2
Novell Linux Desktop 9 SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9(continued)
TASK EXERCISE # OBJECTIVE EXERCISE #
Adding a User 2 Backing Up Files with tar 35
Adding a User During Installation 1 Being Informed About Security Issues 32
Archiving Files 10 Changing Directories and Listing Directory
Changing Global User Account Settings 2 Contents 16
Changing Login Shell 2 Common Command-Line Tasks 26
Changing Password Encryption 1,2 Compressing and Uncompressing Files
with gzip and bzip2 16
Changing User Account Settings 2
Configuring a File System with Logical
Changing Your Password 5
Volume Management (LVM) 42
Checking the Start Logs 15
Configuring a Network Installation 20
Compressing Files 10
Configuring a Samba Server as a File Server 20
Using File Roller 10
Configuring an Apache Web Server 20
Configuring the Desktop 2
Configuring and Installing the GRUB
Configuring a GNOME Shortcut 3 Boot Loader 43
Configuring the Local Printer 8 Configuring and Managing Network
Creating a Backup 13 Printing Services 38
Creating a Rescue Floppy 13 Configuring and Managing Routes 27
Creating a KDE Shortcut 8 Configuring Hostname and Name Resolution 27
Creating Launcher 4 Configuring Linux File System Partitions 42
Disabling Remote Administration 15 Configuring Security Settings with YaST 25
Enabling Accessibility Options 3 Configuring SUSE LINUX Enterprise
Installing a Software Package 3 Server Time 44
Installing Another Desktop 3 Copying and Moving Files and Directories 16
Installing SMB Printer 7 Creating a Security Concept 25
Installing Novell Linux Desktop 9 1 Creating Directories 16
Killing a Process 11 Creating,Viewing,and Appending Files 21
Making KDE the Default Interface 1 Deleting Files and Directories 21
Remote Desktop Sharing 12 Deploying OpenLDAP on a SLES 9 Server 45
Resizing Partitions 14 Developing a Backup Strategy 35
Searching for Files 6 Enabling a Web Server (Apache) 20
Updating the Operating System 9 Enabling Remote Administration with YaST 36
Using Terminal Window 5 Executing Commands at the Command Line 16
Executing RPM Package-Related Operations 19
Finding Files on Linux 17
Finding Help on the Web 32
CHAPTER 2
Implementing and Monitoring Enterprise
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9
Security Policies 44
OBJECTIVE EXERCISE # Installing a Printer in the Linux System 38
Accessing and Using man Pages 32 Introduction to Command Shells 41
Accessing Release Notes and White Papers 32 Introduction to Linux Text Editors 41
Accessing the Command Line 16 Introduction to Network-Related
Adding New Hardware to a SLES 9 System 38 Command-Line Commands 27
Applying Security Updates 25 Introduction to YaST2 Throughout
Limiting Physical Access to Server Systems 43
Archiving Files with tar 35
Automating Data Backups with cron 30
(continues on Inside Back Cover)
Backing Up and Restoring the File System 35
Contents
Novell Linux Certification
®
Practicum Lab Manual
EMMETT DULANEY
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Contents at a Glance
Introduction 1
CHAPTER 1: Novell Linux Desktop 9 5
CHAPTER 2: SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 23
CHAPTER 3: Advanced SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 59
CHAPTER 4: Solutions to Exercises 91
Index 179
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Table of Contents
Introduction 1
What Is Covered in This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
What This Book Is Not . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
A Word About Practicum Exams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
What Do You Need? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
CHAPTER 1: Novell Linux Desktop 9 5
Exercise 1: Armstrong’s Auto Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Exercise 2: Barry’s House of Trophies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Exercise 3: Collette Consulting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Exercise 4: D. S. Technical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Exercise 5: Evan’s Dilemma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Exercise 6: Frank’s Flowers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Exercise 7: Gibson’s Marketing Consultants . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Exercise 8: Heberling Venture Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Exercise 9: Indiana Industrials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Exercise 10: Jerralds Union Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Exercise 11: Kent’s School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Exercise 12: Lessons Learned, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Exercise 13: Mississippi Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Exercise 14: NoMore Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Exercise 15: Octagon Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
CHAPTER 2: SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 23
Exercise 16: ACME Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Exercise 17: Barnes and Fine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Exercise 18: Cash Today . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Exercise 19: Donna’s Collectibles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Exercise 20: Edna and Lorraine Antiques . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Exercise 21: Fetters Hair and Such . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Exercise 22: Global Moving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Exercise 23: Hare Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
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Exercise 24: Independent Fireworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Exercise 25: J & C Bookkeeping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Exercise 26: Karen’s Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Exercise 27: Lifetime Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Exercise 28: Muncie Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Exercise 29: New Start, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Exercise 30: Oak Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Exercise 31: P.A.R. Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Exercise 32: Quality Seals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Exercise 33: Rich and Big Home Improvements . . . . . . . . 46
Exercise 34: Spencer Treats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Exercise 35: Thrifty Constructors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Exercise 36: U.S. Roadways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Exercise 37: Victory Electric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Exercise 38: Waffles and More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Exercise 39: Xtreme Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Exercise 40: Young and Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Exercise 41: Zebb Jewels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Exercise 42: Yorktown Bakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Exercise 43: X. L. Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Exercise 44: Wait and Waste, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Exercise 45: Village Pump & Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
CHAPTER 3: Advanced SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 59
Exercise 46: Alabama Cement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Exercise 47: Alaska Tours and Such . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Exercise 48: Arizona Aluminum Manufacturing . . . . . . . . 63
Exercise 49: Arkansas University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Exercise 50: California Dreaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Exercise 51: Colorado Insurers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Exercise 52: Connecticut Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Exercise 53: Delaware Trucking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Exercise 54: Florida Reviewers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Exercise 55: Georgia Widgets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
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Exercise 56: Hawaii PineTrees, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Exercise 57: Idaho Rock Quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Exercise 58: Illinois Lotto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Exercise 59: Indiana Reptiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Exercise 60: Iowa Retirement Homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Exercise 61: Kansas Vets, Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Exercise 62: Kentucky’s D S Technical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Exercise 63: Louisiana Fishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Exercise 64: Maine Asylums, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Exercise 65: Maryland Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Exercise 66: Massachusetts Spammers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Exercise 67: Michigan Growers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Exercise 68: Minnesota River Authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Exercise 69: Mississippi Diabetes Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Exercise 70: Missouri Knife and Scissor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Exercise 71: Montana Expeditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Exercise 72: North Carolina Swimmers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Exercise 73: North Dakota Plastics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Exercise 74: Nebraska Genealogy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Exercise 75: Nevada Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
CHAPTER 4: Solutions to Exercises 91
Exercise 1: Armstrong’s Auto Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Exercise 2: Barry’s House of Trophies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Exercise 3: Collette Consulting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Exercise 4: D. S. Technical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Exercise 5: Evan’s Dilemma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Exercise 6: Frank’s Flowers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Exercise 7: Gibson’s Marketing Consultants . . . . . . . . . . 102
Exercise 8: Heberling Venture Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Exercise 9: Indiana Industrials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Exercise 10: Jerralds Union Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Exercise 11: Kent’s School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Exercise 12: Lessons Learned, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
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Exercise 13: Mississippi Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Exercise 14: NoMore Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Exercise 15: Octagon Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Exercise 16: ACME Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Exercise 17: Barnes and Fine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Exercise 18: Cash Today . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Exercise 19: Donna’s Collectibles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Exercise 20: Edna and Lorraine Antiques . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Exercise 21: Fetters Hair and Such . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Exercise 22: Global Moving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Exercise 23: Hare Trucks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Exercise 24: Independent Fireworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Exercise 25: J & C Bookkeeping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Exercise 26: Karen’s Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Exercise 27: Lifetime Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Exercise 28: Muncie Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Exercise 29: New Start, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Exercise 30: Oak Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Exercise 31: P.A.R. Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Exercise 32: Quality Seals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Exercise 33: Rich and Big Home Improvements . . . . . . . 131
Exercise 34: Spencer Treats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Exercise 35: Thrifty Constructors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Exercise 36: U.S. Roadways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Exercise 37: Victory Electric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Exercise 38: Waffles and More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Exercise 39: Xtreme Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Exercise 40: Young and Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Exercise 41: Zebb Jewels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Exercise 42: Yorktown Bakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Exercise 43: X. L. Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Exercise 44: Wait and Waste, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Exercise 45: Village Pump & Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Exercise 46: Alabama Cement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
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Exercise 47: Alaska Tours and Such . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Exercise 48: Arizona Aluminum Manufacturing . . . . . . . 149
Exercise 49: Arkansas University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Exercise 50: California Dreaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Exercise 51: Colorado Insurers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Exercise 52: Connecticut Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Exercise 53: Delaware Trucking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Exercise 54: Florida Reviewers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Exercise 55: Georgia Widgets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Exercise 56: Hawaii PineTrees, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Exercise 57: Idaho Rock Quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Exercise 58: Illinois Lotto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Exercise 59: Indiana Reptiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Exercise 60: Iowa Retirement Homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Exercise 61: Kansas Vets, Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Exercise 62: Kentucky’s D S Technical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Exercise 63: Louisiana Fishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Exercise 64: Maine Asylums, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Exercise 65: Maryland Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Exercise 66: Massachusetts Spammers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Exercise 67: Michigan Growers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Exercise 68: Minnesota River Authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Exercise 69: Mississippi Diabetes Group . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Exercise 70: Missouri Knife and Scissor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Exercise 71: Montana Expeditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Exercise 72: North Carolina Swimmers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Exercise 73: North Dakota Plastics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Exercise 74: Nebraska Genealogy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Exercise 75: Nevada Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Index 179
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