<h2>CSC586: System Administration and Security</h2>
The purpose of this course is to explore the issues involved in installing and maintaining a Linux-based system with an emphasis on setting up and maintaining secure services. In particular, the notion of an overall security architecture is addressed and these security polices are discussed:
<ul><li>security issues with multiple accounts
<li>information ownership: who has the right to access what
<li>file permissions and their limitations
<li>access control lists: applied to file and email systems
<li>SE Linux role-based security enhancements
<li>Apache modsecurity module for limiting web-based intrusions
<li>host-based network security
<li>password visibility in a variety of network-based systems incuding database (MySQL,Postgres) and LDAP
<li>maintenance, management and review of security policies
</ul>