Section A: MWF 11:30 - 12:20am in 1116 Engineering Hall (DUE)
Information will be posted here as the class progresses. In the meantime, for students currently enrolled in the class, please refer to K-State Canvas for the latest information.
Teaching Assistants:
- Alex Todd - atodd AT ksu DOT edu
- Kyle Brown - kyle16 AT ksu DOT edu
Class Content
- Syllabus
- Schedule
- Lecture 1 - Introduction & Motivation
- Lecture 2 - Duties of a System Administrator
- Lecture 3 - Computer Hardware
- Lecture 4 - Virtual Machines
- Lecture 5 - OS Installation
- Lecture 6 - Windows 10 In-Depth
- Lecture 7 - Ubuntu 14.04 In-Depth
- Lecture 8 - User Account Management
- Ubuntu 14.04 User Accounts
- Ubuntu 14.04 User Management (Ubuntu Server Guide)
- How to Add and Delete Users on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS (Digital Ocean)
- Installing the "Users and Groups" Management Tool in Ubuntu 14.04 (Ubuntu Handbook)
- The Beginners Guide to Managing Users and Groups in Linux (How-To Geek)
- How to Manage Microsoft and User Accounts in Windows 10 (Windows Central)
- How to Set Up and Configure User Accounts on Windows 10 (How-To Geek)
- The Geek's Way of Managing User Accounts and Groups on Windows
- Lecture 9 - File System Management
- Hard Drives (Explain That Stuff)
- Hard Disk Drive (Wikipedia)
- Solid State Drive (Wikipedia)
- Amazing Facts and Figures about the Evolution of Hard Disk Drives
- Hard Disk Partitions Explained (How-To Geek)
- How to Manage Partitions on Windows Without Downloading Any Other Software (How-To Geek)
- How to Partition (Ubuntu Community Guides)
- How to Resize your Ubuntu Partitions (How-To Geek)
- Windows Folder & File Permissions (Windows 2000 Administrator's Pocket Consultant)
- How to Understand those Confusing Windows 7 Fileshare Permissions
- How to Take Ownership and Change Permissions on Files and Folders (Windows 7 Tutorials)
- An Introduction to Linux File Permissions (Digital Ocean)
- File Permissions (Ubuntu Community Guides)
- Lecture 10 - Service & Process Management
- Lecture 11 - Software & Exam 1 Review
- Installation (Computer Programs) (Wikipedia)
- Here's What Happens when you Install the Top 10 Download.com Apps (How-To Geek)
- Systinternals Process Monitor
- InstallWatch Pro 2.5 on Lo4d.com (USE WITH CAUTION! This download has been unreliable in the past)
- Installing Software (Ubuntu Community Guides)
- How To Use Apt-get (Ubuntu Community Guides)
- How Software Installation Package Managers Work on Linux
- EXAM 1
- Lecture 12 - Networking Concepts
- Lecture 13 - Sharing & Remote Access
- Lecture 14 - Network Security
- Lecture 15 - Command Line Interfaces
- Lecture 16 - Simple Scripts
- Lecture 17 - Scripts for Automation
- Lecture 18 - Advanced Scripts
- Lecture 19 - Troubleshooting & Maintenance
- Lecture 20 - Troubleshooting & Maintenance
- EXAM 2
- Lecture 21 - Cloud Computing Introduction
- Lecture 22 - Setting up Cloud Resources
- Lecture 23 - Securing Cloud Resources
- DigitalOcean - Additional Recommended Steps for New Ubuntu 16.04 Servers
- DigitalOcean - How To Protect SSH With Fail2Ban on Ubuntu 14.04
- DigitalOcean - How to Install LAMP Stack on Ubuntu 16.04
- DigitalOcean - How to Create an SSL Certificate on Apache for Ubuntu
- Ubuntu - How to set up SSH Keys
- DigitalOcean- How to set up SSH Keys
- Lecture 24 - Backups
- Lecture 25 - Monitoring
- Lecture 26 - Security & Best Practices for System Administrators