Educational CDs

These CDs are designed to teach how to use Linux to do user and networking tasks by walking you through it as you do it.

After you boot up from our CD, you will learn by doing everything you read about. Within minutes you will have the X11 Windowing system running and start to configure your system to run on the Internet. You will learn how to use Linux by doing it step by step as you learn about it.

No installation is required, and on White Glove you are up under Linux in a few minutes without making changes to your existing PC hardware - with your hard-disk file systems protected along the way.

Under our White Glove learning environment, you can do things that you wouldn't normally do on your system. Like intentionally running out of storage or memory space to see how the system acts during an overload - or creating a process virus that slows your computer to a near stand-still - and trying to recover from it. All under the safety of the White Glove environment.

Don't just read about it - do it.

Here's what you will learn about and do with the Introduction to Using Linux course:

• Booting Up:
  • How to boot from your CD
  • Running X11
  • Typing commands
  • Built-in menus
  • Network setup (menu-based and command line)
  • Setting up network-based date and time updates
  • Web browsing and Linux resources on the Web
  • Screenshots and Graphics programs
  • The built-in spreadsheet program
  • The built-in graphical text editor
• Overview of Linux Structures
  • Users and Groups - what they are, adding and deleting users and groups, passwords, logging in and out, the files used for controlling them, user and group tools, changing ownership and group membership, and how to tell what owner and group files are associated with.
  • Files and Directories - how they work and the tools for working with them, file control tools, using online manuals, making simple shell scripts and running them. archives and how to use them, GUI file control utilities, open files, system files and what they do, what happens when space runs out, and what to do about it.
  • Programs and Processes - the PATH variable and how programs are run, the process tree and all the processes normally running, process status commands, killing processes, changing process priorities and what can go wrong when you do it, the PROC file system, lsof and the association of file handles with processes, process control tools, signals, running processes later, timing processes, process groups, what happens when memory runs out, and how to recover from it.
• Millions of Protection Bits, and Not a Tool to Manage Them
  • Process protection mechansims and controls
  • File protection mechanisms and controls
  • Protection bit settings
  • Writing a simnple Trojan Horse to escalate privileges
  • Special protections on White Glove Linux
• Common Utilities
  • The shell, sed, grep, while, read, etc.
  • less is more
  • Finding things
  • Awareness of Perl, GCC, vi, awk, bc, cal, csh, diff, split, dd, ed, lex, join, m4, me, pico, sash, sort, and tar

Here's what you will learn about and do with the Linux Networking course:

• Booting Up:
  • How to boot from your CD
  • Running X11
  • Typing commands
  • Built-in menus
  • Network setup (menu-based and command line)
  • Setting up network-based date and time updates
  • Web browsing and Linux resources on the Web
  • Screenshots and Graphics programs
  • The built-in graphical text editor
• Overview of Linux Networking
  • Basics of IPv4
  • Accessing RFCs over the Internet
  • What a datagram looks like
  • How interfaces are configured
  • ICMP, UDP, and TCP packets, ports, and protocols
  • Address resolution, MAC Addresses, and ARP
  • TCPdump and seeing some packets
  • Interfaces and Media
  • Routing and Gateways
  • Ethereal for packet analysis
  • A complete example of how a web get works
• Common Networking Tools
  • Ethereal and a complet packet analysis
  • Following packet streams and sniffing sessions
  • Doing a manual web page retrieval
  • Netcat as a network switchboard
  • EtherApe and looking at protocols in the large
  • Httrack and copying web sites in the large
  • Ntop and network operations issues
  • Nmap as a network scanner
  • Nessus and vulnerability scanning
  • Npulse and network management tools
• Network Servers
  • Configuring servers automatically and manually
  • Configuring and testing the secure web server
  • System status and seeing what servers are running
  • Setting up and testing a Secure Socket Layer server
  • Configuring Secure Shell and testing it
  • Setting up a Domain Name Server and testing it
  • Setting up a Samba server and testing it
  • Setting up deception services with the DTK GUI and testing them
  • Writing your own server in a shell script
  • Some protection issues with network servers
• Building Up Linux Networks
  • Modelling a network node
  • Addresses, interfaces, broadcasts, and masks
  • Routes and setting up a multiport router
  • Masquerades
  • Autostarting a network router from a floppy
  • Wireless networking

On White Glove, you don't just read about it - you do it.

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