[TUHS] Unix Systems Administration Texts

[steve jenkin]

I liked the book by Tom Limoncelli & Christine Hogan. Limoncelli went on to write more books.

I’ve got a copy of Garfield & Spafford, "Practical UNIX and Internet Security", but I don’t know what the Cool Kids use these days.
Security is something you need to do all the time and stay current with… It’s a constant battle with no end, something I didn’t want to devote my life to.

Evi Nemeth taught a course in Sys Admin & maybe had a group/dept as well.
The book came out of the course - undergrads had to do prac work, put in ‘hours’.

The Book ’the standard’ for Admins I knew for many years.

Nemeth et al built “sudo” to solve the “give limited privileges to undergrads” problem. [ Implementing a "Capability-based” kernel & tools may have been a better solution ]
It was a good enough design and spread widely.
I never used it’s full feature set, never in an environment that needed it.

However, the University of Colorado Boulder environment was much larger in some ways than any I worked in and met very different needs.
They had to cope with many students printing jobs, resetting passwords, filling up disk quotas, email queues and more - with an admin group staffed mainly by undergrads, I believe.

> On 1 Mar 2023, at 12:38, Will Senn <will.senn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Frisch, E. (1991). Essential System Administration (3rd edition is my fattest book other than Unabridged Shakespeare)
> Hunter, B. H., & Hunter, K. B. (1991). UNIX Systems Advanced Administration and Management Handbook (Opinionated praxis)
> Nemeth, E., Synder, G., & Seebass, S. (1989). UNIX System Administration Handbook (5th edition is another fatty)

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