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41 Cards in this Set
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What HOWTO is Kevin Fenzi associated with?
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Linux Security HOWTO
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What is Domino?
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an email server
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What is the KDE-based web browser?
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Konquerer
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What type of filesystem is ReiserFS?
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a journaling file system
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What two advantages does ReiserFS have over ext2?
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faster recovery from errors and faster and more secure hard drive writes
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What two space-saving features does ReiserFS have?
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-fast balanced trees: allows multiple small files to be written to a single block
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What is an MUA?
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Mail User Agent- the program run by end users
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What is an MTA?
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Mail Transfer Agent- application used to transfer email between servers
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What is a delivery agent?
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the service that places mail in a mailbox
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What is the most common Linux delivery agent?
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procmail
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What does Linux use to access remote files?
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the Network File System (NFS)
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Who created the Network Information Service (NIS)?
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Sun
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How does NIS make using NFS easier?
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NIS allows the server to maintain configuration files for the entire network
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Who created the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol?
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Microsoft
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What limitation does SMB have?
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not efficient on larger networks
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What two protocols were created to replace SMB?
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Common Internet File System (CIFS) and Network Basic Input/Output System (NetBIOS)
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What two protocols were created to replace SMB?
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Common Internet File System (CIFS) and Network Basic Input/Output System (NetBIOS)
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Who created Samba?
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Andrew Tridgell
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What protocol does Samba use to communicate with Microsoft resources?
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SMB
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What does Linux use to communicate with MacOS resources?
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Netatalk
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What is Linux's enterprise news server?
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InterNetNews (INN)
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What is Dig?
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an indexing and searching system for a domain or intranet
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What limitation does Dig have?
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not efficient on larger networks
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What are chains?
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sets of rules in ipchains to filter network traffic
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What three chains are ipchains organized into?
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input chain, forward chain, and output chain
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In ipchains, what is the difference between deny and reject?
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reject notifies the sender; deny does not
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What is IP Masquerade?
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form of NAT used with ipchains
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How do stateful firewalls differ from stateless firewalls?
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stateful firewalls inspect payloads as well as headers
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How do stateful firewalls differ from stateless firewalls?
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stateful firewalls inspect payloads as well as headers
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When booting, what does the "L" in "LILO" indicate?
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that the primary boot loader has started
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When booting, what does the "I" in "LILO" indicate?
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That the secondary boot loader has loaded
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When booting, what does the second "L" in "LILO" indicate?
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That the secondary boot loader has signalled that it has loaded
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When booting, what does the "O" in "LILO" indicate?
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that booting completed properly
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What is the default inode density for ext2?
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one inode per 4096 bits of disk space
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What are the two types of text-based installations?
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command-line and shell program
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Why can all users change their passwords even though only the owner can write to passwd?
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passwd uses setuid to set permissions when it is running
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Why can all users change their passwords even though only the owner can write to passwd?
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passwd uses setuid to set permissions when it is running
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What numeric value does read permission have?
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4
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What numeric value does write permission have?
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2
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What numeric value does execute permission have?
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1
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What command will display default file permissions?
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umask
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