Instructions: Complete the following exercises. Enter your answers in this document. Upload this lab report with answers in Brightspace on or before the due date and time. Paste a screen capture for each command. Do not take a screenshot of the entire screen. Take the screenshot of the command and the output of the command, as shown below.

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Overview: This practical lab is based on activity covering areas of Linux throughout the semester. Read each section carefully and thoroughly before executing the tasks within the section. Remember, you have access to any book$($s$),$ self$-$prepared notes, the internet, and the system's help, man, and info pages. While you have access to the Internet you must use the commands used in class to receive credit for the section.

$**$ This project is to be completed independently without assistance from anybody. You have $1$ hour and $30$ minutes to complete the lab.

Section $0$: Preparation

$1.$ Open Assisted Lab: Configure Remote Administration in CertMaster

Section $1$: Create user accounts

$1.$ Create a user named user$1$ and set the password to Pa$$w$0$rd$.$

$2.$ Create a user named user$2$ and set the password to Pa$$w$0$rd$.$

$3.$ Take a screenshot showing the user accounts were created and the passwords were set.

Hint: Use the tail command.

Note: One command $($not multiple commands$)$ is needed to show that all the users were added and their passwords were set. are added. Points will be taken off if multiple screenshots are shown.

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Section $2$: Edit user account attributes

$1.$ Clear the screen.

$2.$ Change the comment field for user$1$ to read: User$1.$

$3.$ Verify that you changed the comment field for user$1.$

Hint: Use the tail or grep command.

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Section $3$: Group Accounts

$1.$ Clear the screen.

$2.$ Create the engineering group with a numeric group ID of $8000$

$3.$ Create the operations group with a numeric group ID of $8001$

$4.$ Display the groups you created.

Hint: Use the tail command.

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Section $4$: Add Users to Groups

$1.$ Clear the screen.

$2.$ Add user$1$ to the engineering group.

$3.$ Add user$2$ to the operations group.

$4.$ Display both users and their group memberships.

Hint: Use the tail command.

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Section $5$: Directory Management

$1.$ Clear the screen.

$2.$ Create a directory named Final

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Section $6$: Create and file content

$1.$ Clear the screen.

$2.$ Using redirection, create a file called file$1$ with the following content. This is a test file.

$3.$ Display the redirection command and the contents of file$1.$

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$4.$ Create a file called fileA.

$5.$ Create a file called fileB

$6.$ Verify both files were created.

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$7.$ Create a file named link$-$file.txt in the Final directory.

$8.$ Create a soft $($symbolic$)$ link so that the file softlink.txt points to the file link$-$file.txt$.$

$9.$ Create a hard link so that the file hardlink.txt will point to the same data as link$-$file.txt$.$

$10.$ Verify both soft and hard links were created.

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Section $7$: Permissions

$1.$ Clear the screen.

$2.$ View the permissions for the Final directory, not the contents of the directory.

Hint: check the man page for the options.

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$3.$ View the permissions for all files in the Final directory

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$4.$ Clear the screen.

$5.$ View the permissions for the passwd file

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$6.$ Clear the screen.

$7.$ Display the current umask settings.

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$8.$ Clear the screen.

$9.$ Display the permissions on file$1.$

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$10.$ Change permission on file$1$ to set read, write, and execute for the user, read and write for the group, and no access for others. $($rwxrw$----)$

$12.$ Display the permissions for file$1.$

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Section $8$: Networking

$1.$ Clear the screen.

$2.$ Display the hostname.

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$3.$ Clear the screen.

$4.$ Find the name of your ethernet NIC and display the IP address. Hint: it has a private address

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$5.$ Clear the screen.

$6.$ Display the default gateway$$s IP address.

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$7.$ Use the space below to record the following for your Ethernet adapter.

$1.$ Ethernet Device Name: $\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_$

$2.$ IP Address: $\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_$

$3.$ Gateway Address $($brd$)$: $\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_$

$8.$ Display the MAC addresses of your network interfaces and redirect them to mac$\_$address.txt$.$

$9.$ Clear the screen.

$10.$ Display the mac$\_$address.txt

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