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1. This document discusses Linux user management and permissions. It covers creating a new user, viewing user information in /etc/passwd and /etc/group, and modifying file permissions with chmod. 2. Specific tasks include creating a user named "user", logging in as that user, viewing user data with grep and cut, and making a script executable with chmod +x. 3. It also discusses creating a directory as the "guest" user, prohibiting another user from accessing it, and restricting an owner's permissions to their own file.

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Groupadd User Useradd - G User - S /bin/bash - D /home/user - M User Passwd User Id User Ls - LD /home/user

1. This document discusses Linux user management and permissions. It covers creating a new user, viewing user information in /etc/passwd and /etc/group, and modifying file permissions with chmod. 2. Specific tasks include creating a user named "user", logging in as that user, viewing user data with grep and cut, and making a script executable with chmod +x. 3. It also discusses creating a directory as the "guest" user, prohibiting another user from accessing it, and restricting an owner's permissions to their own file.

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EPAM University Programs

DevOps external course


Module 4 Linux & Bash Essen@als
TASK 4.6

1. User management. Here we suppose there are at least two users, namely, root
and guest.
(i) Create a new user user
groupadd user
useradd -g user -s /bin/bash -d /home/user -m user
passwd user
id user
ls -ld /home/user
(ii) Log in to the system as “user” (hint use su).

(ii) Edit /etc/passwd to prevent user user from logging in to the system.
2. Content of /etc/passwd and /etc/group.

(i) Look through /etc/passwd and /etc/group (hint: use less or cat).
(ii) Get data from /etc/passwd and /etc/group about users: root, guest, user (hint:
filter by grep).

(iii)Parse /etc/passwd and /etc/group with cut.


cut -f1 -d: /etc/passwd cut -f1,2 -d: /etc/passwd
cut -f1,7 -d: /etc/passwd cut -f1 -d: /etc/group

cut -f1,2 -d: /etc/group

(iv) Try to call less on /etc/shadow and invoke


sudo less /etc/shadow
man -k shadow

man 5 shadow

Analyse content of /etc/shadow based on what you’ve found in man 5 shadow.


shadow — is a file which contains the password informa@on for the system's
accounts and op@onal aging informa@on.
/etc/shadow — Secure user account informa@on.
Each line of this file contains 9 fields, separated by colons (“:”), in the following
order: login name, encrypted password, date of last password change, minimum
password age, maximum password age, password warning period, password
inac@vity period, account expira@on date, reserved field.
For example user:!!$6$PO4lBQGk$9KoVSa.EsUtLXaDZya.hjwbGE/IOgtYl/vylH4T/
X802SCnlmNSr4Rd7MoNMd6dj5KU9bfpW5xjgkkTySb.z5/:18375:0:99999:7:::
3. Dealing with chmod.
(i) An executable script. Open your favourite editor and put these lines into a file
#!/bin/bash
echo “Drugs are bad MKAY?”
Give name “script.sh” to the script and call to
chmod +x script.sh
Then you are ready to execute the script:
./script.sh

(ii) Suppose, you have logged in to the system as guest. Create directory “testDir”
in the /tmp; put some file into testDir and prohibit user user from visi@ng this
directory (i.e. “testDir”).
(iii) Test, if it possible to forbid an owner of some file to read to or write from this
file.

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