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Aaron Joyner wrote:

> Aaron S. Joyner wrote:
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>> Douglass Davis wrote:
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>>> I am teaching Linux this semester.   If some one told you that they
>>> knew about Linux, what would be some essential skills that you would
>>> expect them to have, or things you would expect them to know.  I don't
>>> mean expert level Linux knowledge but just intermediate.
>>> This message is especially for those of you who have ever hired some
>>> one for a position involving Linux.
>>> ...
>>>   
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> Now that I'm awake, and have read over my diatribe again, let me 
> mention a few other essential bits that I didn't cover at midnight.  
> Be sure to cover the basic access controls.  The simple "you are root, 
> or you're not" paradigm, where root has essentially no access 
> controls.  Also, you should cover how a user belongs to one group, his 
> primary group, but can also belong to multiple groups.  It would be 
> useful for the student to be aware of how files they create are 
> created owned by themselves, and with a group of their primary group.  
> You should also explain umask in this same context, and tie it into 
> inheritance (umask is set in the init scripts, all processes inherit 
> their parent's umask, and you can set it in your login scripts or an 
> individual shell to affect your environment.  Be sure to explain why 
> setting a 0000 umask is a "very bad thing", from a security 
> perspective, just in case they don't get it.
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> By the way, I'm very interested to hear if you think you can actually 
> cover all of the stuff mentioned in this email and the previous one in 
> a semester, and to what degree of depth.  I imagine you can do the 
> cursory level of all of this in a semester, and you might even be able 
> to take the same concepts, and drill down on a lot of them in a second 
> semester "essential linux II", or something, but I'm not an education 
> professional by any means, so I'm curious to hear your thoughts.
>
> I'm going to try to devote an hour each evening, for as long as I can 
> muster, to clean up and expand on this information in the wiki, for 
> the betterment of anyone willing to read it.  We'll see if I can stick 
> with it.  :)
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> Aaron S. Joyner
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