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Securing Linux - Centralized Authentication
Part of Linux Security & Hardening Topic: Linux
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What you'll do
FreeIPA is an open source, fully featured system for managing user accounts and accesses to hosts, that has a number of features that we will cover that make it very useful and easy to use.
- It also supports Kerberos, the cryptographic protocol for managing access used by AD and consequently allows it to be used in an AD environment, as well as supporting Linux-specific features like mapping system users…
- In this lab, we will explore basic setup and configuration and look into a few of the features that we can use to limit access.
- ⏱ About 3 h
- Counts towards: CompTIA Linux+ (exam XK0-006)
Roadmaps that use this lab
- CompTIA Linux+ (XK0-006) — step 3: Secure and harden it
- Security Engineer — career path — step 2: Harden Linux


