Lab 3 Tech Journal ‐03 - Liam-DiFalco/Sys255-FA24 GitHub Wiki

Introduction

This lab was a simple instructions to setup and network a non-GUI linux box.

Instructions

  • Starting with a static network setup with nmtui,

Go to "edit a connection"

Find your network and select edit

Go down and turn IPv4 Configuration and set it to manual, then select show.

In the addresses section put your desired IP address with its subnet prefix.

Then set your gateway and DNS and search domain.

Then go down to Ok on the bottom, and you are all finished!

  • then adding creating a new sudo user

`useradd 'username'

usermod -aG wheel 'username'`

  • Then testing ssh on windows

ssh username@domainname

Tech Journal Challenge

Find three new linux commands/tools

  • htop This command allows the user to view all currently running processes and have it all viewable in the terminal. This command also provides the current usage of the computers resources.

  • rsync This command allows you to sync files or directories between two remote locations on a network.

  • ncdu An incredibly useful tool for low disk storage linux installs, and recursively scans directories and informs you which directories take up the most space.