Linux Mint System Administration Beginner's Guide -- Table of Contents -- Linux Mint System Administration Beginner's Guide -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Time for action - heading -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - heading -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Introduction to Linux Mint -- Overview -- A bit of history -- Open source project -- Contributing to the project -- Why Linux Mint is different -- Editions -- Summary -- References -- 2. Installing Linux Mint -- Creating a bootable Linux Mint USB flash drive -- Time for action - downloading and burning the ISO image -- What just happened? -- Installing Linux Mint from a flash drive -- Time for action - booting and installing Linux Mint -- What just happened? -- Booting Linux Mint -- Time for action - booting Linux Mint for the first time -- What just happened? -- Summary -- 3. Basic Shell -- What's a shell? -- Where are you? -- Time for action - learning pwd and cd commands -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - using a shortcut for accessing your home directory -- Running commands -- Time for action - launching a program from the command line -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - executing programs without using the full path -- Search commands -- Time for action - using the which command -- What just happened? -- Listing, examining, and finding files -- Time for action - using the ls, locate, find, and cat commands -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - getting more information when listing files -- Pipelines and redirection.

Time for action - using pipelines and redirection by applying different commands -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - appending content to a file using redirection -- Setting environment variables -- Time for action - setting the PATH environment variable -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - learning the export command -- Displaying command history -- Time for action - using the history command -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - checking the history of executed commands -- Creating your first shell script -- Time for action - creating and executing a shell script -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - learning advanced shell programming -- How to get help -- Time for action - using the man and the info commands -- What just happened? -- Summary -- 4. Account Provisioning -- Who am I? -- Time for action - finding out the current user -- What just happened? -- Becoming the root user -- Time for action - using the sudo command to become the root user -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - executing the whoami command after becoming the root user -- Changing password -- Time for action - changing the password for a user -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - using the passwd command -- Adding a new user -- Time for action - creating a new user -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - try to delete a user -- Adding a new group -- Time for action - creating a new group called develop -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - try to delete a group -- Adding a user to a group -- Time for action - adding the user luke to the develop group -- What just happened? -- Changing user privileges -- Time for action - granting permissions to a user for monitoring system logs -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - using command line for changing permissions -- Summary -- 5. Installing, Removing, and Upgrading Software.

Installing software -- Time for action - installing the AbiWord word processor -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - discovering software provided by Linux Mint -- Removing software -- Time for action - removing the AbiWord program -- What just happened? -- Upgrading software -- Time for action - upgrading software through the Update Manager tool -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - finding out how to change preferences in Update Manager -- Summary -- 6. Configuring Hardware -- Detecting hardware -- Time for action - how to display the device information -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - using the dmesg, lspci, and lsusb commands -- Configuring your monitor -- Time for action - changing the screen resolution -- What just happened? -- Configuring a keyboard -- Time for action - adding a new layout -- What just happened? -- Configuring your mouse -- Time for action - changing mouse orientation -- What just happened? -- Configuring sound -- Time for action - how to enable window and button sound -- What just happened? -- Installing additional drivers -- Summary -- 7. Networking -- Configuring a wired network -- Time for action - configuring your connection -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - changing the hostname -- Configuring the wireless network -- Time for action - how to connect your computer to a wireless network -- What just happened? -- Accessing a Windows-shared folder -- Time for action - how to access a specific shared folder -- What just happened? -- Connecting to servers -- Time for action - connecting to an FTP server -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - connecting to a server using the secure WebDAV protocol -- Summary -- 8. Storage and Backup -- Filesystem types -- Disk quotas -- Time for action - assigning disk quota to a specific user -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - scheduling quota checking.

Disk usage analysis -- Time for action - examining disk usage -- What just happened? -- Creating backups -- Time for action - making a backup of a specific folder -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - creating and restoring a backup file -- Restoring backups -- Time for action - restoring a backup folder -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - create backup for applications -- Summary -- 9. Security -- Running an SSH server -- Time for action - installing and configuring an SSH server -- What just happened? -- Installing anti-virus software -- Time for action - installing the Clam-AV anti-virus -- What just happened? -- Configuring a firewall -- Time for action - how to configure a simple firewall -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - disabling firewall on startup using the command line -- Using a security module for the kernel -- Time for action - installing AppArmor -- What just happened? -- Managing your password safely -- Time for action - installing and using KeePass -- What just happened? -- Building a security checklist -- Summary -- 10. Monitoring Your System -- Processes and services -- Starting and stopping services -- Time for action - stopping and starting an SSH daemon -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - checking current status of all services -- Activating services -- Time for action - activating Samba -- What just happened? -- Listing the running processes -- Time for action - list the processes running on our machine -- What just happened? -- Displaying CPU, memory, and network usage -- Time for action - Displaying resources information in real time -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - getting information about filesystems usage -- Summary -- 11. Troubleshooting -- Hardware -- Time for action - checking memory, CPU, USB, and PCI devices -- What just happened? -- Checking log files.

Time for action - listing the last five lines of the syslog file -- What just happened? -- Kernel -- Time for action - using lsmod, modprobe, and dmesg commands -- What just happened? -- Networking -- Time for action - checking who is listening on what port -- What just happened? -- Processes and filesystems -- Time for action - finding a specific process -- What just happened? -- Summary -- Index.