System administration involves a large number of tasks that require access to ne

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System administration involves a large number of tasks that require access to network servers and workstation computers. Scripting is commonly used for many of these tasks to reduce the labor and to also reduce the likelihood of mistakes. Many of the tasks require administrative access to the computers, and security must be maintained.

Your IT group is currently working on a plan to automate as much of the administration work as possible using scripts, but they want to ensure that the security of all systems is maintained.

You have been asked to investigate the issues surrounding security and the use of scripts in a network environment and report your findings to the IT group. Use the Library and Internet to find information about maintaining security when using scripting for system administration in a network environment. As part of your response to the IT group:

Identify at least 2 administrative IT tasks where scripting could be used but security would present an issue.

Describe a solution for each task that will maintain security and still allow a scripted solution for the task.

You are not required to write any scripts for this discussion, but you should discuss how the security issues would be resolved if a script was applied to complete the task. Include at least 1 reference to research sources.

Cite all references using APA format.

Explanation / Answer

Hi

We can do numerous number of administrative tasks using scripts. Below are some of the exampless-

1) update the local file database, --> A script which can do periodic updates on local file database.

2) find and of required delete) files with 777permissions --> A script which can find all the files with full permission recursively and delete them

3) alert when filesystem usage surpasses a defined limit--> A script which can send alert when the memory used by a given process or user or file system exceeds a pre-defined limit.

The possible issues with the scripting could be below-

1. Difficult to understand for any business or non technical users

2. Script may present security issues if its security feaures are not updated peridically.

How to overcome these issues-

1. Proper documentation of script needs to be done for better understandability

2. Periodically update the script with new features.

Regards,

Vinay Singh

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