RHCSA Rapid Track

Reset your serverX system.

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

2. Open a window with a Bash prompt.

   Select Applications → Utilities → Terminal.

3. Become the root user at the shell prompt.

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

4. Add the user juliet.

   [root@serverX ~]# useradd juliet

5. Confirm that juliet has been added by examining the /etc/passwd file.

   [root@serverX ~]# tail -2 /etc/passwd
   tcpdump:x:72:72::/:/sbin/nologin
   juliet:x:1001:1001::/home/juliet:/bin/bash
   

6. Use the passwd command to initialize juliet's password.

   [root@serverX ~]# passwd juliet
   Changing password for user juliet.
   New password: juliet
   BAD PASSWORD: The password is shorter than 8 characters
   Retype new password: juliet
   passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

7. Continue adding the remaining users in the steps below and set initial passwords.

   1. romeo

      [root@serverX ~]# useradd romeo
      [root@serverX ~]# passwd romeo
      Changing password for user romeo.
      New password: romeo
      BAD PASSWORD: The password is shorter than 8 characters
      Retype new password: romeo
      passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

   2. hamlet

      [root@serverX ~]# useradd hamlet
      [root@serverX ~]# passwd hamlet

   3. reba

      [root@serverX ~]# useradd reba
      [root@serverX ~]# passwd reba

   4. dolly

      [root@serverX ~]# useradd dolly
      [root@serverX ~]# passwd dolly

   5. elvis

      [root@serverX ~]# useradd elvis
      [root@serverX ~]# passwd elvis