System Administration and Computer Security

Course details

• Instructor: Sanjiv K. Bhatia
• Prerequisites: CS376, or consent of instructor
• Textbooks:
  • Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass, and Hein. Unix System Administration Handbook. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 1995.
  • Garfinkel and Spafford. Practical Unix Security. O'Reilly, Sebastapool, CA. 1996.

An interesting treatise on back doors in Unix

Course Objectives

• Basic System Administration
• Networking
• System Management
• System Security