Red Hat System Administration I

Log into the GNOME desktop on serverX as student with a password of student.

Open a window with a Bash prompt.

Select Applications → Utilities → Terminal.

Become the root user at the shell prompt.

[student@serverX ~]$ su -
Password: redhat

Run lab permissions setup which will create a shared group, ateam, with two new users, andy and alice. The password for these accounts is password

[root@serverX ~]# lab permissions setup

Create a directory in /home called ateam-text.

[root@serverX ~]# mkdir /home/ateam-text

Change the group ownership of the ateam-text directory to ateam.

[root@serverX ~]# chown :ateam /home/ateam-text

Ensure the permissions of ateam-text allows group members to create and delete files.

[root@serverX ~]# chmod g+w /home/ateam-text

Ensure the permissions of ateam-text forbids others from accessing its files.

[root@serverX ~]# chmod 770 /home/ateam-text
[root@serverX ~]$ ls -ld /home/ateam-text
drwxrwx---.  2 root ateam 6 Jan 23 12:50 /home/ateam-text

Exit the root shell and switch to the user andy with a password of password.

[root@serverX ~]# exit
[student@serverX ~]$ su - andy
Password: password

Navigate to the /home/ateam-text folder (remember to open a terminal window first).

[andy@serverX ~]$ cd /home/ateam-text

Create an empty file called andyfile3.

[andy@serverX ateam-text]$ touch andyfile3

Record the default user and group ownership of the new file and its permissions.

[andy@serverX ateam-text]$ ls -l andyfile3
-rw-rw-r--.  1 andy andy 0 Jan 23 12:59 andyfile3

Change the group ownership of the new file to ateam and record the new ownership and permissions.

[andy@serverX ateam-text]$ chown :ateam andyfile3
[andy@serverX ateam-text]$ ls -l andyfile3
-rw-rw-r--.  1 andy ateam 0 Jan 23 12:59 andyfile3

Exit the shell and switch to the user alice with a password of password.

[andy@serverX ateam-text]$ exit
[student@serverX ~]$ su - alice
Password: password

Navigate to the /home/ateam-text folder.

[alice@serverX ~]$ cd /home/ateam-text

Determine alice's privileges to access and/or modify andyfile3.

[alice@serverX ateam-text]$ echo "text" >> andyfile3
[alice@serverX ateam-text]$ cat andyfile3
text