IT 135 - Nicole Cook - Assignment 4

Assignment 4 -- The Linux File Structure
The objective of this assignment is for you to use several of the commands we discussed in the lecture. You will create users and groups for your Linux system, so you will need to come up with several users (they can be real or made up) and a number of groups. Your groups should be a logical breakdown of your users.
	Using the Command Line Interface (or Terminal or CLI) add a minimum of five users to your system. If you took this class to be able to set up a Linux box at work you can use that setup to meet the requirements of this assignment. When entering the users be sure to fill out the additional information for each user (Room Number, Phone, etc). Now create and populate a minimum of five groups for your system. These groups should be a logical breakdown for your users. You can use standard business departments (Marketing, Engineering, Accounting) or you can make something up as long as it is gradeable (your users could be superheros and the groups could be the production companies - DC Comics, Marvel Comics). Create a common work area for your users: In the root directory make a subdirectory with the name "work-area". Assign ownership of this new directory to your user ID. Assign the group rights for this directory to a group that contains all the users you created. Inside the work-area directory create one sub-directory for each of your groups. Assign ownership of each sub-directory to a user in that group (Note: you may want to be a member of all the groups) and assign the group rights for each sub-directory to each group respectively. Select one of the new group specific sub-directories (one of the sub-directories of the work-area directory) and create a text file in the directory (you can use the "touch" and "echo" command to create it or you can use gedit or vi). Place some common phrase in the file like: "Even the largest oak tree in the forest was once just a nut that held it's ground". Change the access rights to this file to allow everyone to access it. Proof of Completion - For this assignment I will need a few items so we will need a clean method to deliver them. Using LibreOffice Write as our capturing software, I would like you to copy and paste the following items into your document. Separate each one with some white space and a title telling me what it is: $ cat /etc/passwd $ getent passwd [your user name] Not working? Figure out why $ cat /etc/group $ getent group [last group defined] $ cd /work-area then ls -l list the directory (long version) where the file lives Answer this question: Which of your users can access the file you created?

Assignment 4 -- The Linux File Structure

The objective of this assignment is for you to use several of the commands we discussed in the lecture. You will create users and groups for your Linux system, so you will need to come up with several users (they can be real or made up) and a number of groups. Your groups should be a logical breakdown of your users.

Using the Command Line Interface (or Terminal or CLI) add a minimum of five users to your system. If you took this class to be able to set up a Linux box at work you can use that setup to meet the requirements of this assignment. When entering the users be sure to fill out the additional information for each user (Room Number, Phone, etc).
Now create and populate a minimum of five groups for your system. These groups should be a logical breakdown for your users. You can use standard business departments (Marketing, Engineering, Accounting) or you can make something up as long as it is gradeable (your users could be superheros and the groups could be the production companies - DC Comics, Marvel Comics).
Create a common work area for your users: In the root directory make a subdirectory with the name "work-area". Assign ownership of this new directory to your user ID. Assign the group rights for this directory to a group that contains all the users you created. Inside the work-area directory create one sub-directory for each of your groups. Assign ownership of each sub-directory to a user in that group (Note: you may want to be a member of all the groups) and assign the group rights for each sub-directory to each group respectively.
Select one of the new group specific sub-directories (one of the sub-directories of the work-area directory) and create a text file in the directory (you can use the "touch" and "echo" command to create it or you can use gedit or vi). Place some common phrase in the file like: "Even the largest oak tree in the forest was once just a nut that held it's ground". Change the access rights to this file to allow everyone to access it.
Proof of Completion - For this assignment I will need a few items so we will need a clean method to deliver them. Using LibreOffice Write as our capturing software, I would like you to copy and paste the following items into your document. Separate each one with some white space and a title telling me what it is:
1. $ cat /etc/passwd
2. $ getent passwd [your user name]
  Not working? Figure out why
3. $ cat /etc/group
4. $ getent group [last group defined]
5. $ cd /work-area
  then ls -l
6. list the directory (long version) where the file lives
7. Answer this question: Which of your users can access the file you created?

Assignment Submission Criteria
To turn in this assignment you will go to the NSC Canvas shell for this class. Submit your LibreOffice file using the submission button on the assignment page.

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