Linux Networking and Identity Management
A Linux system in isolation has no enterprise value. This course teaches you how to connect your systems to real networks — and how to control who can access them and what they can do. You'll start with local identity management: creating and modifying user accounts and groups, configuring system-wide environment profiles, setting user resource limits, managing delegated privileges, and integrating Linux systems with LDAP-based enterprise directories. From there, the focus shifts to networking. You'll configure IPv4 and IPv6 addressing, set up hostname and DNS resolution, and verify the stat
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