1. Account and Security Administration

1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Gathering System Info
3. Approaches to Storing User Accounts
4. User and Group Concepts
5. User Private Group Scheme
6. User Administration
7. Modifying Accounts
8. Group Administration
9. Password Aging
10. Limiting Logins
11. Default User Files
12. su and Wheel
13. sudo
14. Setting Resource Limits via ulimit
15. pam_limits.so
16. lsof and fuser

Lab Tasks

1. User and Group Administration
2. Restricting superuser access to wheel group membership
3. User Private Groups
4. Setting Limits with the pam_limits Modules

2.Customizing the Shell and Writing Simple Scripts

1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Configuration Files
3. Script Execution
4. Bash: Configuration Files
5. Shell and Environment Variables
6. Bash Shell Options
7. Bash: “shortcuts”
8. Bash: prompt
9. Nesting Commands
10. Shell Script Strengths and Weaknesses
11. Example Shell Script
12. Positional Parameters
13. Input & Output
14. Doing Math
15. Comparisons with test
16. Exit Status
17. Conditional Statements
18. Flow Control: case
19. The for Loop
20. The while and until Loops
21. Functions
22. Sending and Receiving Email with mailx

Lab Tasks

1. Bash Login Scripts
2. Writing a Shell Script
3. Command Line Email
4. Alpine

3. Automating Tasks

1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Automating Tasks
3. at/batch
4. cron
5. The crontab Command
6. crontab Format
7. /etc/cron.*/ Directories
8. Anacron

Lab Tasks

1. Adding System cron Jobs
2. Creating and Managing User Cron Jobs

4. Networking

1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. IPv4 Fundamentals
3. TCP/UDP Fundamentals
4. IPv6
5. Linux Network Interfaces
6. Ethernet Hardware Tools
7. Configuring Routing Tables
8. Network Configuration with ip Command
9. Starting and Stopping Interfaces
10. SUSE YaST Network Configuration Tool
11. Hostname and Domain Name
12. Name Resolution
13. DNS Clients
14. Network Diagnostics
15. Information from ss and netstat
16. nmap
17. Netcat

Lab Tasks

1. Basic Client Networking
2. Configuring IPv6

5.X Window System

1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. The X Window System
3. X Modularity
4. X.Org Drivers
5. Starting X
6. Configuring X Manually
7. Automatic X Configuration
8. Xorg and Fonts
9. Installing Fonts for Modern Applications
10. Installing Fonts for Legacy Applications
11. The X11 Protocol and Display Names
12. Display Managers and Graphical Login
13. X Access Control
14. Remote X Access (historical/insecure)
15. Remote X Access (modern/secure)
16. Customizing X Sessions
17. Starting X Apps Automatically

Lab Tasks

1. Configure X Security
2. Launching X Apps Automatically
3. Secure X

6. Accessibility and Localization

1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. GNOME Accessibility Support
3. Internationalization & Localization
4. Character Encodings
5. Locales
6. Setting the Time Zone

Lab Tasks

1. GNOME Accessibility
2. Character Encoding Conversion
3. Locale Configuration
4. Time Zone Configuration – Traditional Method
5. System Clock Configuration – Distribution tools
6. System Clock Configuration – Distribution tools

7. Time and Printing

1. LPI Objectives Covered
2. Hardware and System Clock
3. Managing Network-Wide Time
4. Continual Time Sync with NTP
5. Configuring NTP Clients
6. Useful NTP Commands
7. Common UNIX Printing System
8. Defining a Printer
9. Standard Print Commands
10. CUPS Troubleshooting
11. CUPS Troubleshooting

Lab Tasks

1. NTP Client Configuration
2. Printing
3. Configuring Print Queues