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. I Am learning sysadmin fundamentals but it is extremely hard. Please help!
Not that hard, once the idea of what is expected from a sysadm: Administering a UNIX environment with users, printers, server(s) and maybe workstations...
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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
Set permissions on sensitive files:
I dealing with users: users have rights and permissions and UNIX permissions (basic) are limited to 3 cases:
the user/ownrt, a group owner, and the rest of the planet
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Set permissions on /etc/shadow to allow only root read and write access.
Set permissions on /etc/gshadow to allow only root read and write access.
How do you think this can be done knowing the 3 cases?
I suggest you look at the man pages of your 3 commands ls, chown, chmod
I let you start now, Im off to physio and will look and complete once back