System Administration and Management

This course is a survey of tools and techniques used in the administration of an internetworking computing environment. Included will be system installation, file systems and file and directory-permission structures, device configuration and management, and user-account administration. Also included will be service administration and security and privacy issues. Students completing this course will have experience in administering an internetwork of computers with a wide variety of services, including file service, print service, remote-access service, application service, name service, FTP service, web service and others.