Download or read book PAM Mastery written by Michael W Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pluggable Authentication Modules: Threat or Menace? PAM is one of the most misunderstood parts of systems administration. Many sysadmins live with authentication problems rather than risk making them worse. PAM’s very nature makes it unlike any other Unix access control system. If you have PAM misery or PAM mysteries, you need PAM Mastery! With PAM Mastery, you’ll understand: · the different versions of PAM · the intricacies of Linux-PAM and OpenPAM · how PAM policies make decisions · how to debug PAM · the most frequently seen PAM modules · Linux-PAM extended controls and substacks · time-based one-time passwords · using SSH keys for more than SSH · password quality testing · policies from CentOS, Debian, and FreeBSD · and more! Transform PAM from a headache to an ally with PAM Mastery.
Download or read book Sudo Mastery written by Michael W Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sudo: You’re Doing It Wrong Unix-like operating systems use a rudimentary access control system: the root account can do anything, while other users are peasants with only minimal access. This worked fine in UNIX’s youth, but now that sysadmin responsibilities are spread among many people and applications, many people need a tiny slice of root’s power. Sudo lets you divide root’s monolithic power between the people who need it with accountability and auditability. Sudo Mastery will teach you to: · design a secure sudo policy · simplify policies with lists and aliases · manage shell environments · verify system integrity via intrusion detection · deploy a single sudo policy across your enterprise · manage sudo policies via LDAP · log and debug sudo · record and replay full sudo sessions · use authentication systems other than passwords Master sudo with Sudo Mastery!
Download or read book SSH Mastery written by Michael W Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling text on SSH, newly revised and updated! Secure Shell (SSH) lets sysadmins securely manage remote systems. It’s powerful, complicated, and confusing. Lose the confusion. SSH Mastery: OpenSSH, PuTTY, Tunnels and Keys rescues you from sifting through decades of obsolete online tutorials and quickly makes you an SSH journeyman. You’ll learn to · eliminate passwords · manage access by users, groups, addresses, and more · securely move files around your network · forward graphic displays · proxy TCP connections · build SOCKS proxies · centrally manage and distribute keys and configurations · use SSH as secure transport for other applications · build virtual private networks · create Certificate Authorities for truly large scale deployment Master Secure Shell with SSH Mastery! #ssh2e
Download or read book Ed Mastery written by Michael W Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I’m glad someone’s finally giving ed the attention it deserves.” – Ken Thompson, co-creator of Unix Let me be perfectly clear: ed is the standard Unix text editor. If you don’t know ed, you’re not a real sysadmin. Forty years after ed’s introduction, internationally acclaimed author Michael W Lucas has finally unlocked the mysteries of ed for everyone. With Ed Mastery, you too can become a proper sysadmin. Ed Mastery will help you: · understand buffers and addresses · insert, remove, and mangle text · master file management and shell escapes · comprehend regular expressions, searches, and substitutions · create high-performance scripts for transforming files You must be at least this competent to use this computer. Read Ed Mastery today!
Download or read book OpenBSD Mastery Filesystems written by Michael W. Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many users assume that their advanced filesystem is better than UFS because they have so many features—snapshots, checksums, compression, sophisticated caching algorithms, and so on—while all UFS has ever done is muck about putting data on disk. But, conversely, UFS users believe their filesystem is better for exactly the same reasons." —Hitchhikers Guide to OpenBSD Disk management is the core of system administration. Nobody can tell you how large that database is going to grow or how many files that archive must eventually support, but for everything else there’s OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems. This guide takes you through the latest in OpenBSD storage management, including: · OpenBSD’s cross-platform storage stack · MBR, GPT, and disklabel partitions · The Unix File System · Growing, removing, and repairing filesystems · Memory file systems · The Buffer Cache · Why you need swap, and how to live with it · Coping with FAT, NTFS, EXT, and more · The Network File System · iSCSI · Software RAID · Encrypted filesystems · Encrypted installs And more! Partition yourself for success and grab OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems now.
Download or read book FreeBSD Mastery Jails written by Michael W Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONFINE YOUR SOFTWARE Jails are FreeBSD’s most legendary feature: known to be powerful, tricky to master, and cloaked in decades of dubious lore. Deploying jails calls upon every sysadmin skill you have, and more—but unleashing lightweight virtualization is so worth it. FreeBSD Mastery: Jails cuts through the clutter to expose the inner mechanisms of jails and unleash their power in your service. You will: · Understand how jails achieve lightweight virtualization · Understand the base system’s jail tools and the iocage toolkit · Optimally configure jail hardware · Manage jails from the host and from within the jail · Optimize disk space usage to support hundreds or thousands of jails · Comfortably work within the limits of jails · Implement fine-grained control of jail features · Build virtual networks · Deploy hierarchical jails · Constrain jail resource usage · And more! Strip away the mystery. Read FreeBSD Mastery: Jails today! “This is the sequel to Git Commit Murder, right ?” /phk, creator of the jail system
Download or read book DNSSEC Mastery 2nd edition written by Michael W. Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DNS The world’s most successful distributed database—and the most naïve. The Domain Name System is one of the Internet’s oldest protocols, designed for a network without hostile users. Intruders targeting a network start by investigating their DNS. DNS Security Extensions, or DNSSEC, hardens DNS and brings it into the 21st century. Learning DNSSEC required wading through years of obsolete tutorials, dead ends, and inscrutable standards. Until now. This new edition of DNSSEC Mastery will have DNS administrators deploying DNSSEC with industry-standard software in hours instead of weeks. You will: · Understand what DNSSEC provides · Configure your servers to resist attack · Verify your environment supports modern DNS · Debug DNSSEC and the Chain of Trust · Sign your zones and attach them to the Chain of Trust · Conceal zone data with NSEC3 · Automate DNSSEC maintenance · Roll over keys to maintain integrity · Implement DNSSEC on private networks · Securely distribute security-critical information via DNS And more! DNSSEC Mastery transforms DNS from a headache to a solution.
Download or read book TLS Mastery Tux Edition written by Michael W Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transport Layer Security, or TLS, makes ecommerce and online banking possible. It protects your passwords and your privacy. Let’s Encrypt transformed TLS from an expensive tool to a free one. TLS understanding and debugging is an essential sysadmin skill you must have. TLS Mastery takes you through: · How TLS works · What TLS provides, and what it doesn’t · Wrapping unencrypted connections inside TLS · Assessing TLS configurations · The Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol · Using Let’s Encrypt to automatically maintain TLS certificates · Online Certificate Status Protocol · Certificate Revocation · CAA, HSTS, and Certificate Transparency · Why you shouldn’t run your own CA, and how to do it anyway · and more! Stop wandering blindly around TLS. Master the protocol with TLS Mastery!
Download or read book FreeBSD Mastery Specialty Filesystems written by Michael W Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filesystems for everything! FreeBSD includes many special-purpose filesystems. FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems takes you through these filesystems, helping you solve problems you didn’t know you have. These filesystems underlie everything from application servers to jails. You’ll learn to manage: -removable media -MSDOS and Linux filesystems -CD, DVD, and Blu-Ray disks -devfs -process filesystems -the file descriptor filesystem -the POSIX message queue filesystem -union mounts -null mounts -both memory filesystems, and when to use each -NFS versions 2, 3, and 4 -iSCSI targets and initiators -the Common Internet File System -networked disk redundancy with geom_gate and HAST -high availability storage with HAST and iSCSI -NFSv4 Access Control Lists -User Space Filesystems -FreeBSD’s Solaris-compatible automounter System administrators of any expertise level will expand their FreeBSD mastery with FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems.
Download or read book FreeBSD Mastery Advanced ZFS written by Michael W Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on 2016-04-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ZFS improves everything about systems administration. Once you peek under the hood, though, ZFS’ bewildering array of knobs and tunables can overwhelm anyone. ZFS experts can make their servers zing—and now you can, too, with FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS. This small book teaches you to: •Use boot environments to make the riskiest sysadmin tasks boring •Delegate filesystem privileges to users •Containerize ZFS datasets with jails •Quickly and efficiently replicate data between machines •split layers off of mirrors •optimize ZFS block storage •handle large storage arrays •select caching strategies to improve performance •manage next-generation storage hardware •identify and remove bottlenecks •build screaming fast database storage •dive deep into pools, metaslabs, and more! Whether you manage a single small server or international datacenters, simplify your storage with FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS.
Download or read book Relayd Httpd Mastery written by Michael W Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I think we’re gonna need a bigger web server.” OpenBSD has a solid reputation for security and stability. It’s well known for the OpenSMTPd mail server, the LibreSSL cryptography library, and the PF packet filter. But nobody ever talks about the load balancer, or the web server. Until now. The httpd web server provides a fast, stable, secure environment for your web applications. The relayd load balancer lets you distribute Internet application load across multiple hosts. Between the two, you can slash hundreds of thousands of dollars off the cost of building, deploying, and managing applications. With Httpd and Relayd Mastery you’ll learn how to: · set up web sites · configure software to run in a chroot · run dozens or hundreds of sites on one host · dynamically reconfigure sites with Lua patterns · manage site logs · maintain free, globally-valid SSL certificates · improve performance with SSL stapling · install and maintain two-server clusters · distribute traffic between any number of hosts · stop worrying about old SSL versions and bad crypto algorithms Slash the amount of time you spend futzing with web servers. Get Httpd and Relayd Mastery today!
Download or read book Letters to ed 1 written by Michael W Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You asked. He didn’t answer. The We Get Letters column of the FreeBSD Journal has been called “a tsunami of bile disguised as experience and erudition,” “a torment to the eye and a stain upon the soul,” and “the corroded battleship anchor that will drag an otherwise illustrious Journal to an ignominious demise.” If you ask people who aren’t the columnist, you’ll get a less luminous view. Perhaps even negative. We sincerely apologize. This collection of the first three years illustrates how rapidly Lucas abandoned any pretense of answering questions usefully—or, indeed, paying any attention whatsoever to his correspondents. It is unacceptable. What the editors conceived of as an innocent letters column quickly transcended bitterness to become elevated, even elegant enmity. Against everyone. Apologies are insufficient. In an attempt to keep these columns from teaching other articles bad habits, we have confined them in their own private volume. The publisher expects it to be presented as evidence at his inevitable competency hearings, as well as most of the civil suits. Next week’s suits, at least. "While we appreciate Mr Lucas' unique contributions to the Journal, we do feel his specific talents are not being fully utilized. Please buy his books, his hours, autographed photos, whatever so that he is otherwise engaged." – John Baldwin, FreeBSD Journal Editorial Board Chair
Download or read book Vicious Redemption written by Michael Warren Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trapped on a reef with a walking dead man. A need that cannot be sated or survived. Nobody else hears the dead dog’s murderous ghost. Whiskey means silence. So do claws. Mental scars drag the world behind them. SOME SALVATIONS COST TOO MUCH. “The five stories in this collection are a real treat for fans of fantasy and horror. Join writer Michael Warren Lucas as he takes you on a trip through perilous supernatural landscapes and explores the darkness and strength of the human heart.” – Lucy Snyder, multiple Stoker-award-winning author of While The Black Stars Burn and Soft Apocalypses Contains: Wednesday’s Seagulls, Pax Canina, Opening the Eye, Breaking the Circle, and Sticky Notes.
Download or read book Spilled Mirovar written by Michael Warren Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern year of 1927, and orcs still have to fight elven asshole bullshit. Prohibition left exceptions for the church of Men, the Elvish sacraments, even the Dwarfish rituals. But the elves in Congress insist that orcs have no sacraments. Without the Orcish draught, without the rites, Uruk-Tai’s fine strong boys might grow tall. They might earn respect. But they will never be Orcs. And Uruk will not let that happen.
Download or read book Aidan Redding Against the Universes written by Michael Warren Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physics inconvenient? Change it. Then watch it try to kill you. Solve a murder in a universe without ground to stand on. Investigate inexplicable deaths a few million years after the Big Bang. Take too many breaths and never go home again. Let the antimatter trickle between your fingers, and visit five alien universes in this first Montague Portal omnibus. Contains: Forever Falls Hydrogen Sleets Drinking Heavy Water Sticky Supersaturation No More Lonesome Blue Rings
Download or read book Forever Falls written by Michael Warren Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s no grounds for murder. There’s no ground at all. The people exploring and exploiting alien universes risk everything, including their lives. But Devin Gupper’s death makes no sense. And the more questions security officer Aidan Redding asks, the less rational it seems. But in a bottomless universe full of impossibilities, one impossible murder begins everything...
Download or read book Frozen Talons written by Michael Warren Lucas and published by Tilted Windmill Press. This book was released on with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “ A tale so outlandish it feels real. Prohibition. Grosse Pointe elves. Automotive lords. And the orcs doing their best to make America make sense. A riotous fantasy within a fantasy. Terry Pratchett via Detroit!” --Zig Zag Claybourne, author of Afro Puffs are the Antennae of the Universe HOPE EXISTS TO BE CRUSHED The tenuous bootlegging alliance between the Tai clan and the human Sanford brought wealth to Uruk-Tai’s family. But a treacherous shadow has poisoned booze in the clan’s name. Humans have died and other humans blame Uruk, the way small men always blame orcs. But when an orcish child dies from poison draught and war erupts between clans, Uruk finds himself forced into a magic-bound partnership with a clan rival who wants him dead. As the Sun surrenders to the Longest Night, Uruk charges through the belly of 1927 Detroit to find a cowardly killer before his own family is destroyed. Is it a lone poisoner? Or have the arrogant elves decided to end their slow feud and destroy Uruk’s family? An orc endures, but endurance is not enough. By dawn, bodies frozen to the street. Perhaps Uruk’s children among them.
