A High$-$Stakes Investigation

You have just been hired by Lucky Duck Casino as a security analyst.

Lucky Duck has lost a significant amount of money on the roulette tables over the last month.

The largest losses occurred on March $10,12,$ and $15.$

Your manager believes there is a player working with a Lucky Duck dealer to steal money at the roulette tables.

The casino has a large database containing data on wins and losses, player analysis, and dealer schedules.

You are tasked with navigating, modifying, and analyzing these data files to gather evidence on the rogue player and dealer.

You will prepare several evidence files to assist the prosecution.

You must work quickly, as Lucky Duck can't afford any more losses.

Lucky Duck Casino has provided you with the following files:

Roulette Player Data: Week of March $10$Links to an external site.

Employee Dealer Schedule: Week of March $10$Links to an external site.

NOTE

The instructions ask you to set up the files using a wget command, but the files are also provided in compressed zip format if the command does not work.

Lab Environment

You will use your web lab virtual machine for today's activities.

Instructions

Use your command$-$line skills to uncover the identities of the rogue casino player and dealer colluding to scam Lucky Duck out of thousands of dollars.

After your investigation, you will provide a summary of your findings to the casino.

Step $1$: Investigation Preparation

Your first task is to set up directories to prepare for your investigation.

$$The sysadmin account has the necessary permissions to run the activities in this challenge. If you encounter a Permission denied error, make certain you are in the correct directory.

Navigate to your HOME directory

cd $/$home$/$sysadmin

Make a single directory titled Lucky$\_$Duck$\_$Investigations then navigate to this new directory.

In the Lucky$\_$Duck$\_$Investigations directory, create a directory for this specific investigation titled Roulette$\_$Loss$\_$Investigation.

In Roulette$\_$Loss$\_$Investigation, create the following directories:

Player$\_$Analysis to investigate the casino player.

Dealer$\_$Analysis to investigate the dealers.

Player$\_$Dealer$\_$Correlation to summarize your findings about the collusion.

Create empty files called Notes$\_.$txt under each subdirectory to store investigation notes.

For example: Notes$\_$Player$\_$Analysis.txt