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os_cp:users_permissions:solutions

1whoami
2groups
id
3id
getent passwd your_username
# uid is the third, and gid the fourth field
4w -n
5last -wn 10
# displays 10 last logons
6last root
7last --present '2023-03-03 13:30'
8write username
message
Ctrl+d
9su
exit
# lub Ctrl+d
su user5
exit
10ls -ld ~ ~/.ssh ~/.bash_history /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /tmp /usr/bin/passwd /usr/bin/write
stat ~ ~/.ssh ~/.bash_history /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /tmp /usr/bin/passwd /usr/bin/write
# the exercise shows examples of real-world permission usage; ponder why such permissions are set
11ls -l /var/run /dev/sda /dev/nvme0n1 /dev/null /run/initctl /run/rpcbind.sock
stat /var/run /dev/sda /dev/nvme0n1 /dev/null /run/initctl /run/rpcbind.sock
# the exercise shows the possible file types (apart from an ordinary file and a directory)
12fortune > file1
chmod go-r file1
su user2
cat file1
exit
su user3
cat file1
exit
fortune > file1
chmod go-r file1
su user2 -c "cat file1"
su user3 -c "cat file1"
13fortune > file2
chmod 640 file2
# verify as above
14fortune > file3
chmod o-r file3
# alternatively: chmod u=rw,g=r,o= file3
15chgrp left file3
16fortune > file4
chmod 604 file4
# verify as in 31
17mkdir dir1
fortune > dir1/a
chmod -x dir1
ls dir1
cd dir1
cat dir1/a
18chmod u=rwx,go=rx dir1
su user2
cat dir1/a
ls dir1
exit
chmod go-r dir1
# repeat cat and ls as user2
19mkdir dir2
cd dir2
touch a b
chmod go-r b
su user2
rm a
rm b
exit
20cd ~/dir2
su user2
mkdir d1 d2
touch d2/f
exit
rm -r d1
rm -r d2
21cd ~/dir2
mv d2 foo
mv foo ~
cd ..
mkdir dir3
mv dir2 dir3
22mkdir dir4
fortune > file5
fortune > dir4/f
chmod -R 0 dir4 file5
su
cat file5
cd dir4
cat f
exit
23su
chown user2 file1
chown :www-data file2
exit
24stat /var/log/wtmp
# take notice of the last access date which might precede last modify date
25touch ~
26touch -d '13:30 PDT Saturday month ago' file

os_cp/users_permissions/solutions.txt · Last modified: 2023/04/02 11:17 by jkonczak