Hands On Final

Question 1

add new user tfoster

Answer 1

useradd tfoster

Question 2

how can you tell what directory you are in?

Answer 2

pwd

Question 3

command to make a directory

Answer 3

mkdir

Question 4

create an alias called lof that will list the student home directory and the date

Answer 4

lof=”ls /home/student;date”

Question 5

copy the vsftpd.conf file from the /etc into the student home directory

Answer 5

cp /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf /home/student

Question 6

search for all the lines that contain the word “Allow” in the vsftpd.conf and direct the output into a file called Allows

Answer 6

grep “Allow” vsftpd.conf > Allows

Question 7

set the permissions of the vsftpd.conf file to -rxwrxwrxw

Answer 7

chmod 777 vsftpd.conf

Question 8

redirect the error message from ls /lowrider into a file called searching_lowrider

Answer 8

ls /lowrider 2>searching_lowrider

Question 9

add a new group called brander_group

Answer 9

groupadd brander_group

Question 10

change the group on vsftpd.conf to brander_group

Answer 10

chgrp brander_group vsftpd.conf

Question 11

what is the group number of brander group?

Answer 11

cat /etc/group

Question 12

using relative path change to etc directory

Answer 12

cd ../../etc

Question 13

using absolute path change to student home directrory

Answer 13

cd /home/student

Question 14

change to the bin directory

Answer 14

cd /bin

Question 15

what is the user id number for student?

Answer 15

id student

Question 16

find any files starting with vsftpd in the etc directory

Answer 16

find /etc -name vsftpd*

Question 17

display the last 20 lines of the passwd file that contain “/bin/bash”

Answer 17

tail -20 /etc/passwd | grep “/bin/bash”

Question 18

list all files including hidden files

Answer 18

ls -a

Question 19

rename ronhoward file auntbee

Answer 19

mv ronhoward auntbee

Question 20

delete the videos dirctory

Answer 20

rm -r Videos