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This video provides a brief overview of the other videos in this chapter on the three network file sharing services. The default Red Hat file transfer service is vsFTP, short for the very secure FTP server. It's modestly different from other FTP services while user-based connections are allowed, the focus is on secure anonymous connections. While the NETwork File System is inherently insecure, it is still the easiest way to share files and directories between various Linux and Unix systems. Samba is the Linux system for connecting to a Microsoft-based network. Samba has adopted, as Microsoft has developed the SMB protocol into what is now known as the common Internet file system. There are also security options associated with each of these services. It's possible to set up access through a Firewall for both FTP and Samba servers. Just start the Security Level Configuration tool on the server. The options are right there in the Trusted Services window. Finally, there is a wide variety of security enhanced Linux settings associated with each of these services and more. Take a look for yourself. Open the SELinux Management tool. It's available with the system config SELinux command. Each of these options is fairly self-explanatory. For example, if you activate the option in the ftp configuration file, that's vsftpd dot conf, to allow access to user home directories, that won't be enough. This setting in SELinux will still prevent access to user home directories. To allow access to user home directories you need to activate this Boolean.
| Course: | Red Hat Certified Engineer |
| Author: | Michael Jang |
| SKU: | 33845 |
| ISBN: | 1-934743-47-X |
| Release Date: | 2008-01-18 |
| Duration: | 6.5 hrs / 94 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |