Connecting to VMware.  

Logging in with the web client.  These instructions can be used either on campus or off campus.
         vSphere Web Client  - Firefox
         vSphere Web Client  - Chrome (recommended)

If you're using a laptop on and off campus, the hosts file needs to be configured differently for both locations.  Hosts file settings

Install VMWare Tools
Upgrade VMWare Tools

OpenSuse Documentation. 
What's Leap?

Linux Distribution Defined
Open Source Defined
Distrowatch.com

Some sites on Permissions:
Permissions Primer
Understanding Linux Permissions
If you find other sites that helped you, please share.

To learn more about managing users and groups using Yast, refer to chapter 10 in the Novell OpenSuse Startup manual

Password Policies
How cracklib works

Chapter Pages in PDF Form 
Managing Directories and Files 
Presentation Used in Class

File System Hierarchy Standard
For many of the commands covered in this section you should refer to the man and/or info files:  The files/commands include:  fstab, mount, ln, find, e2label, fdisk, mkfs, xargs, locate, whereis, which, type, alias (.bashrc), du, df, tree, fsck, init

Some of the commands are presented in the chapter pages, some are presented in the class presentation and additional references to some are included below:

Fstab - Wikipedia
fstab - arch linux wiki
ln command - Hard and Symbolic links explained.
find examples
find
Run Levels
systemd
Alias
df and du commands
Difference between su and su -
zypper References
systemd

Sharing File System with NFS (Open Suse Active Docs)

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NIS

Although there are lots of websites with NIS information; many are overviews of the process with no detail on how it works and many show the process without explanations.  And, of course, many are for different distributions.  I've provided links to the materials I found most useful. 

Using NIS -- this is a bit old but I think it's does a good job at explaining how NIS works.   Use this article for an understanding of NIS, not for instructions on how to configure it in OpenSuse. 

NIS This includes some good information on the files used and available utilities.  It includes instructions for configuring NIS with Yast.  Although it is an older version of OpenSuse, it works. 

NIS - Includes general instructions for setting up NIS on OpenSuse from Yast as well as from the command line. (Photocopied pages from a book -- not the best copy...)

Sudo

Manage jobs with cron and at

Intro to Cron (old but some good info included)

Cron and Crontab usage and examples

How to enable user and group disk quotas

journalctl