Interested in pursuing RHCSA
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Levithan
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Just a quick Q, I'm looking at going for the RHCSA myself. Seeing as I can buy a RHCSA 6 voucher until the 28th, would that be a better decision than going for the version 7? I currently have both the books by Jang and Tommasino, however haven't had the time to read them yet.
I'm only asking as I understand that many businesses are still using RHEL6, and it will be years until most of them have updated to R7. Any advice would be great!
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brownwrap
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We are finally pushing the last of the RHEL 5 machines out the back door. I don't see us rushing tp RHEL 7 anytime soon. Fairly shortly we will be one person short, but even beyond that we have enough to keep busy. Converting over a hundred desktop and servers is a big job and bound to break things. This is not like installing Windows 10 on a laptop. We are trying to implement SELinux and that is breaking stuff. I enabled it and couldn't log into my desktop because the GUI couldn't write to my home directory. Just waiting to see what happens to a server, and this is just one thing you can turn off or on.
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JockVSJock
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I bought my voucher for RHCA 6, however I realize that my next voucher for RHCE will be for Version 7.
Not sure how difficult this is going to be.***Freedom of Speech, Just Watch What You Say*** Example, Beware of CompTIA Certs (Deleted From Google Cached)
"Its easier to deceive the masses then to convince the masses that they have been deceived."
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brownwrap
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I read yesterday, I don't remember where, that the adoption of RHEL 7 has been the slowest of any previous release.
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JockVSJock
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I know our shops is going to hold onto RHEL 5 till the very bitter end, because it is technology that is proven, not bleeding edge stuff.***Freedom of Speech, Just Watch What You Say*** Example, Beware of CompTIA Certs (Deleted From Google Cached)
"Its easier to deceive the masses then to convince the masses that they have been deceived."
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JockVSJock
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We are finally pushing the last of the RHEL 5 machines out the back door. I don't see us rushing tp RHEL 7 anytime soon.
I can't remember, I think you said you work for the Fed Gov't, right?
If so RHEL 5 has STIGs for it, is that the same case for RHEL 6? I don't see any documentation for it online, like I do for RHEL 5
https://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/os/redhat/rhel5-guide-i731.pdf***Freedom of Speech, Just Watch What You Say*** Example, Beware of CompTIA Certs (Deleted From Google Cached)
"Its easier to deceive the masses then to convince the masses that they have been deceived."
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JockVSJock
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but we are implementing SELinux.
Not sure what you mean by implemeting SELinux? I thought it came turned on by default...?***Freedom of Speech, Just Watch What You Say*** Example, Beware of CompTIA Certs (Deleted From Google Cached)
"Its easier to deceive the masses then to convince the masses that they have been deceived."
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brownwrap
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There is more than more mode. Check out /etc/selinux/config. We had been in permissive, which just flags thing, now we are slowly moving to enforced and targeted. I enabled it on my workstation and couldn't login via the gui because it was trying to write thing to my home directory.
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aftereffector
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There is a STIG for RH6 but right now it is a manual documentation instead of using a tool like SCAP.
Red Hat
There actually is a SCAP for RHEL6!
Main SCAP page (iase.disa.mil):
http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/scap/Pages/index.aspx
SCAP 1.1 content for RHEL 6:
http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/Documents/U_RedHat_6_V1R6_STIG_SCAP_1-1_Benchmark.zip
SCAP tools (i686 and x86 64) for RHEL:
https://powhatan.iiie.disa.mil/stigs/downloads/zip/SCC_3.1.2_rhel_i686.zip
https://powhatan.iiie.disa.mil/stigs/downloads/zip/SCC_3.1.2_rhel_x86_64.zipCCIE Security - this one might take a while... -
runlevl4
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Yup. We're just now planning an upgrade to 6.5 from 5.x.JockVSJock wrote: »I know our shops is going to hold onto RHEL 5 till the very bitter end, because it is technology that is proven, not bleeding edge stuff.
