The Ubuntu Administration Guide

Table of Contents

Preface

Conventions

Feedback

About this Book

Acknowledgments

I. Introduction

1. Information Resources

Online

Documentation

2. Installing

Overview

Requirements

Creating Boot Diskettes

Installation

The Install Program

Partitions

File Systems

Boot Managers

Installing Software

Upgrading

Finishing Off

II. Setup

3. System Configuration

Administrative Tools

Administrative Interfaces

X Windows System

User Management

Device Management

Printing

4. Network Configuration

Linux in the Network

Ubuntu Server Management

LAN

DSL and ISDN

PPP

Modem Setup

Network Protocols

5. Security Configuration

Encryption

Intrusion Detection

Proxies

Firewalls

Secure Shell

Access Control Lists (POSIX ACL)

6. Backups

III. System

7. Ubuntu on iX86

8. Ubuntu on AMD 64

9. Ubuntu on PowerPC

10. The Linux kernel

11. Special Ubuntu Features

12. Ubuntu Boot Concept

IV. Servers

13. Heterogeneous Networks

14. Domain Name Service

15. DHCP

16. NFS

17. Samba

18. NIS

19. Apache2 Web Server

20. FTP Servers

21. Mail Servers

22. News Servers

23. Search Servers

24. Proxies

25. Synchronization of Files

V. System Administration

26. Basic System Administration

27. User Administration

28. Software Administration

29. File System Administration

30. Kernel Administration

31. Administering TCP/IP Networks

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