Wesleyan's UNIX User Group

Please send agenda suggestions to  unix_users_group@wesleyan.edu.

We meet on an irregular basis. Please join the Lyris list for announcements (directions below).

User Group Mailing List

Join the UNIX User Group mailing list to follow news, debates, and share technical support ideas, with other group members.

To join send email to join-unix_users_group@lyris.wesleyan.edu    

To send email to the list, use the address unix_users_group@wesleyan.edu

ElementK UNIX Admin Training

ElementK is an E-Learning company that provides self-guided and instructor-led courses on a wide variety of computing topics, including UNIX administration. Wesleyan provides basic ElementK accounts free of charge to interested students, faculty, and staff, however UNIX administration courses are not included in this basic account. Thus, we ask that individuals interested in using ElementK to learn about UNIX administration cover the $150/yr cost of the higher tier account themselves (or through their lab or faculty supervisor). To purchase an account, please contact Joanne Agostinelli (jagostinelli@wesleyan.edu, x3987).

Here are the UNIX administration, network-, and security-related self-guided courses available to these higher tier accounts:

• Fundamentals of UNIX Administration
• The Sun Solaris Operating System
• Solaris Fundamentals
• Linux Professional: System Administration
• Linux Professional: Network Administration
• Linux Professional: Apache Web Server
• Linux+ Certification
• Linux Workstation Management (Red Hat 7.2)
• Network Administration
• Security Awareness: Concepts and Practices
• Security Awareness: (Part 1): Accessing a Computer, a Network and the Internet in a Secure Manner
• Security+ Certification (Part 2): Hardening Internal Systems and Services
• Security+ Certification (Part 3): Hardening Internetwork Devices and Services
• Security+ Certification (Part 4): Securing Network Communications
• Security+ Certification (Part 5): Managing Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and Certificates
• Security+ Certification (Part 6): Enforcing Organizational Security Policy
• Security+ Certification (Part 7): Monitoring the Security Infrastructure 

Reference materials available online through the accounts include:

• Mastering Red Hat Linux 9 by Michael Jang
• Official Red Hat Linux System Administrator's Guide by The Red Hat Documentation Team
• UNIX Made Easy: UNIX and Linux Basics & Beyond, Third Edition by John Muster
• UNIX Network Management Tools by Steven Maxwell
• UNIX Shell Programming Tools by David Medinets