Table of Contents

Preface to Second Edition.

1. Introduction.

2. System Components.

3. Networked Communities.

4. Host Management.

5. User Management

6. Models of Network and System Administration.

7. Configuration and Maintenance.

8. Diagnostics, Fault and Change Management.

9. Application Level Services.

10. Network Level Services.

11. Principles of Security.

12. Security Implications.

13. Analytical System Administration.

14. Summary and Outlook.

A. Some Useful Unix Commands.

B. Programming and Compiling.

C. Example Telnet Session.

D. Glossary.

E. Recommended Reading.

Bibliography.

Index.

About the Author

MARK BURGESS is associate professor at Oslo University College, Norway, and a member of SAGE, USENIX and the IEEE. He is an internationally respected scientist both in Computer Science and the Theoretical Physics and has won various prizes for his work on Computer Immunology and GNU cfengine. He was recently awarded The SAGE 2003 Professional Contribution Award, "For groundbreaking work in systems administration theory and individual contributions to the field".