Lpi 300-100 - LPIC-3 Exam 300: Mixed Environments, version 1.0

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  • Exam Code: 300-100
  • Exam Name: LPIC-3 Exam 300: Mixed Environments, version 1.0
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LPI 300-100 Exam Syllabus Topics:

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OpenLDAP Configuration

OpenLDAP Replication

Weight: 3

Description: Candidates should be familiar with the server replication available with OpenLDAP.

Key Knowledge Areas:
-Replication concepts
-Configure OpenLDAP replication
-Analyze replication log files
-Understand replica hubs
-LDAP referrals
-LDAP sync replication

The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
-master / slave server
-multi-master replication
-consumer
-replica hub
-one-shot mode
-referral
-syncrepl
-pull-based / push-based synchronization
-refreshOnly and refreshAndPersist
-replog

Securing the Directory

Weight: 3

Description: Candidates should be able to configure encrypted access to the LDAP directory, and restrict access at the firewall level.

Key Knowledge Areas:
-Securing the directory with SSL and TLS
-Firewall considerations
-Unauthenticated access methods
-User / password authentication methods
-Maintanence of SASL user DB
-Client / server certificates

Terms and Utilities:
-SSL / TLS
-Security Strength Factors (SSF)
-SASL
-proxy authorization
-StartTLS
-iptables

OpenLDAP Server Performance Tuning

Weight: 2

Description: Candidates should be capable of measuring the performance of an LDAP server, and tuning configuration directives.

Key Knowledge Areas:
-Measure OpenLDAP performance
-Tune software configuration to increase performance
-Understand indexes

Terms and Utilities:
-index
-DB_CONFIG

OpenLDAP as an Authentication Backend

LDAP Integration with PAM and NSS

Weight: 2

Description: Candidates should be able to configure PAM and NSS to retrieve information from an LDAP directory.

Key Knowledge Areas:
-Configure PAM to use LDAP for authentication
-Configure NSS to retrieve information from LDAP
-Configure PAM modules in various Unix environments

Terms and Utilities:
-PAM
-NSS
-/etc/pam.d/
-/etc/nsswitch.conf

Integrating LDAP with Active Directory and Kerberos

Weight: 2

Description: Candidates should be able to integrate LDAP with Active Directory Services.

Key Knowledge Areas:
-Kerberos integration with LDAP
-Cross platform authentication
-Single sign-on concepts
-Integration and compatibility limitations between OpenLDAP and Active Directory

Terms and Utilities:
-Kerberos
-Active Directory
-single sign-on
-DNS

Samba Basics

Samba Concepts and Architecture

Weight: 2

Description: Candidates should understand the essential concepts of Samba. As well, the major differences between Samba3 and Samba4 should be known.

Key Knowledge Areas:
-Understand the roles of the Samba daemons and components
-Understand key issues regarding heterogeneous networks
-Identify key TCP/UDP ports used with SMB/CIFS
-Knowledge of Samba3 and Samba4 differences

The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
-/etc/services
-Samba daemons: smbd, nmbd, samba, winbindd

Configure Samba

Weight: 4

Description: Candidates should be able to configure the Samba daemons for a wide variety of purposes.

Key Knowledge Areas:
-Knowledge of Samba server configuration file structure
-Knowledge of Samba variables and configuration parameters
-Troubleshoot and debug configuration problems with Samba

Terms and Utilities:
-smb.conf
-smb.conf parameters
-smb.conf variables
-testparm
-secrets.tdb

Regular Samba Maintenance

Weight: 2

Description: Candidates should know about the various tools and utilities that are part of a Samba installation.

Key Knowledge Areas:
-Monitor and interact with running Samba daemons
-Perform regular backups of Samba configuration and state data

Terms and Utilities:
-smbcontrol
-smbstatus
-tdbbackup

Troubleshooting Samba

Weight: 2

Description: Candidates should understand the structure of trivial database files and know how troubleshoot problems.

Key Knowledge Areas:
-Configure Samba logging
-Backup TDB files
-Restore TDB files
-Identify TDB file corruption
-Edit / list TDB file content

Terms and Utilities:
-/var/log/samba/
-log level
-debuglevel
-smbpasswd
-pdbedit
-secrets.tdb
-tdbbackup
-tdbdump
-tdbrestore
-tdbtool

Internationalization

Weight: 1

Description: Candidates should be able to work with internationalization character codes and code pages.

Key Knowledge Areas:
-Understand internationalization character codes and code pages
-Understand the difference in the name space between Windows and Linux/Unix with respect to share, file and directory names in a non-English environment
-Understand the difference in the name space between Windows and Linux/Unix with respect to user and group naming in a non-English environment
-Understand the difference in the name space between Windows and Linux/Unix with respect to computer naming in a non-English environment

Terms and Utilities:
-internationalization
-character codes
-code pages
-smb.conf
-dos charset, display charset and unix charset

Samba Share Configuration

File Services

Weight: 4

Description: Candidates should be able to create and configure file shares in a mixed environment.

Key Knowledge Areas:
-Create and configure file sharing
-Plan file service migration
-Limit access to IPC$
-Create scripts for user and group handling of file shares
-Samba share access configuration parameters

Terms and Utilities:
-smb.conf
-[homes]
-smbcquotas
-smbsh
-browseable, writeable, valid users, write list, read list, read only and guest ok
-IPC$
-mount, smbmount

Linux File System and Share/Service Permissions

Weight: 3

Description: Candidates should understand file permissions on a Linux file system in a mixed environment.

Key Knowledge Areas:
-Knowledge of file / directory permission control
-Understand how Samba interacts with Linux file system permissions and ACLs
-Use Samba VFS to store Windows ACLs

Terms and Utilities:
-smb.conf
-chmod, chown
-create mask, directory mask, force create mode, force directory mode
-smbcacls
-getfacl, setfacl
-vfs_acl_xattr, vfs_acl_tdb and vfs objects

Print Services

Weight: 2

Description: Candidates should be able to create and manage print shares in a mixed environment.

Key Knowledge Areas:
-Create and configure printer sharing
-Configure integration between Samba and CUPS
-Manage Windows print drivers and configure downloading of print drivers
-Configure [print$]
-Understand security concerns with printer sharing
-Uploading printer drivers for Point’n’Print driver installation using ‘Add Print Driver Wizard’ in Windows

Terms and Utilities:
-smb.conf
-[print$]
-CUPS
-cupsd.conf
-/var/spool/samba/.
-smbspool
-rpcclient
-net

Samba User and Group Management

Managing User Accounts and Groups

Weight: 4

Description: Candidates should be able to manage user and group accounts in a mixed environment.

Key Knowledge Areas:
-Manager user and group accounts
-Understand user and group mapping
-Knowledge of user account management tools
-Use of the smbpasswd program
-Force ownership of file and directory objects

Terms and Utilities:
-pdbedit
-smb.conf
-samba-tool user (with subcommands)
-samba-tool group (with subcommands)
-smbpasswd
-/etc/passwd
-/etc/group
-force user, force group.
-idmap

Authentication, Authorization and Winbind

Weight: 5

Description: Candidates should understand the various authentication mechanisms and configure access control. Candidates should be able to install and configure the Winbind service.

Key Knowledge Areas:
-Setup a local password database
-Perform password synchronization
-Knowledge of different passdb backends
-Convert between Samba passdb backends
-Integrate Samba with LDAP
-Configure Winbind service
-Configure PAM and NSS

Terms and Utilities:
-smb.conf
-smbpasswd, tdbsam, ldapsam
-passdb backend
-libnss_winbind
-libpam_winbind
-libpam_smbpass
-wbinfo
-getent
-SID and foreign SID
-/etc/passwd
-/etc/group

Samba Domain Integration

Samba as a PDC and BDC

Weight: 3

Description: Candidates should be able to setup and maintain primary and backup domain controllers. Candidates should be able to manage Windows/Linux client access to the NT-Style domains.

Key Knowledge Areas:
-Understand and configure domain membership and trust relationships
-Create and maintain a primary domain controller with Samba3 and Samba4
-Create and maintain a backup domain controller with Samba3 and Samba4
-Add computers to an existing domain
-Configure logon scripts
-Configure roaming profiles
-Configure system policies

Terms and Utilities:
-smb.conf
-security mode
-server role
-domain logons
-domain master
-logon script
-logon path
-NTConfig.pol
-net
-profiles
-add machine script
-profile acls

Samba4 as an AD compatible Domain Controller

Weight: 3

Description: Candidates should be able to configure Samba 4 as an AD Domain Controller.

Key Knowledge Areas:
-Configure and test Samba 4 as an AD DC
-Using smbclient to confirm AD operation
-Understand how Samba integrates with AD services: DNS, Kerberos, NTP, LDAP

Terms and Utilities:
-smb.conf
-server role
-samba-tool domain (with subcommands)
-samba

Configure Samba as a Domain Member Server

Weight: 3

Description: Candidates should be able to integrate Linux servers into an environment where Active Directory is present.

Key Knowledge Areas:
-Joining Samba to an existing NT4 domain
-Joining Samba to an existing AD domain
-Ability to obtain a TGT from a KDC

Terms and Utilities:
-smb.conf
-server role
-server security
-net command
-kinit, TGT and REALM

Samba Name Services

NetBIOS and WINS

Weight: 3

Description: Candidates should be familiar with NetBIOS/WINS concepts and understand network browsing.

Key Knowledge Areas:
-Understand WINS concepts
-Understand NetBIOS concepts
-Understand the role of a local master browser
-Understand the role of a domain master browser
-Understand the role of Samba as a WINS server
-Understand name resolution
-Configure Samba as a WINS server
-Configure WINS replication
-Understand NetBIOS browsing and browser elections
-Understand NETBIOS name types

Terms and Utilities:
-smb.conf
-nmblookup
-smbclient
-name resolve order
-lmhosts
-wins support, wins server, wins proxy, dns proxy
-domain master, os level, preferred master

Active Directory Name Resolution

Weight: 2

Description: Candidates should be familiar with the internal DNS server with Samba4.

Key Knowledge Areas:
-Understand and manage DNS for Samba4 as an AD Domain Controller
-DNS forwarding with the internal DNS server of Samba4

Terms and Utilities:
-samba-tool dns (with subcommands)
-smb.conf
-dns forwarder
-/etc/resolv.conf
-dig, host

Working with Linux and Windows Clients

CIFS Integration

Weight: 3

Description: Candidates should be comfortable working with CIFS in a mixed environment.

Key Knowledge Areas:
-Understand SMB/CIFS concepts
-Access and mount remote CIFS shares from a Linux client
-Securely storing CIFS credentials
-Understand features and benefits of CIFS
-Understand permissions and file ownership of remote CIFS shares

Terms and Utilities:
-SMB/CIFS
-mount, mount.cifs
-smbclient
-smbget
-smbtar
-smbtree
-findsmb
-smb.conf
-smbcquotas
-/etc/fstab

Working with Windows Clients

Weight: 2

Description: Candidates should be able to interact with remote Windows clients, and configure Windows workstations to access file and print services from Linux servers.

Key Knowledge Areas:
-Knowledge of Windows clients
-Explore browse lists and SMB clients from Windows
-Share file / print resources from Windows
-Use of the smbclient program
-Use of the Windows net utility

Terms and Utilities:
-Windows net command
-smbclient
-control panel
-rdesktop
-workgroup

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