RHCSA Study Guide

1. Logical volume ‘home’ as created and mounted. Reduce its size to ‘192M’ (size from 185M to 200MB is acceptable)

2. Add a group sysmgrs

Add a user Natasha such that user’s secondary group is sysmgrs.

Add a user harry such that user’s secondary group is sysmgrs.

Add a user sarrah, who has no interactive shell, and not belongs to the group sysmgrs.

Set password of Natasha, harry and sarrah to lotawens.

3. Configure FTP access on your virtual machine to allow permission for anonymous user.

4. Make a collaborative directory /a/b and set the permission as

Group ownership of /a/b is sysmgrs

The directory should be readable, writable and accessable to members of sysmgrs, but not to any other user. ( it is undershould that root has access to all files and
directories on the system)

Files created in /a/b automatically have group ownership set to the group sysmgrs.

5. Copy the file /etc/fstab to /var/tmp. Configure the permissions of /var/tmp/fstab so that,

The file /var/tmp/fstab is owned by the root user

The file /var/tmp/fstab is belongs to group root

The file /var/tmp/fstab is should not be executable by anyone

The user natasha is able to read and write /var/tmp/fstab

The user harry can neigher write not read /var/tmp/fstab

All other users (current or future) have the ability to read /var/tmp/fstab

6. set cronjob for user natasha to do /bin/echo hiya at 14:23

7. host.domain70.example.com shares remote users. Configure ldap such that ldapusers has no home directory until we do automounting.

baseDN: dc=domain70, dc=example, dc=com

Certificate: ftp://host.domain70.example.com/pub/EXAMPLE-CA-CERT

Username: ldapuser70

Password: password

8. configure NTP with that of rhcert.domain70.example.com

9. Implement a web server for the site http://station.domain70.example.com/ then perform the following steps:

Download ftp://rhcert.domain70.example.com/pub/rhcsa/station.html

Rename the download file to index.html

Copy this index.html to the Document root of your web server.

DO NOT make any modifications to the content of index.html

10. Install the appropriate Kernel update from ftp://domain70.example.com/pub/updates/ The following criteria must also be met:

The updated kernel is the default Kernel when the system is rebooted.

The orginal kernel remains available and bootable on the system.

11. Configure autofs to automount the home directories of ldapusers host.domain70.example.com NFS-exports /rhome to your
machine. ldapuser70’s home directory should be automounted locally beneath /rhome/ldapuser7-. Home directores must be writable by thier users.

User: ldpauser70
Password: password

12. Create a swap partition of 754 MB size. Do not make any change to the existing swap partition

13. Add a user manlo with uid 1353. Set his password as lotawens

14. Locate all files and directories of user jacques and copy it to /root/findfiles

OR locate the files of owner “dax” and copy to the directory /root/founddirectory

OR Find files in your system which is owned by andrew user & save on /backup/somefile.

15. Find all lines contain a string loop in a file /etc/grub.conf copy it to /root/list. Don’t leave a free line in /root/list

16. Create a device:

Logical volume qa with 60 extents.

Volume group qagroup with 16MB extent size.

Mount it permanently under /abc with file system ext3

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