Exam EX200 topic 1 question 98 discussion

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Question #: 98
Topic #: 1

SIMULATION -
Create the following users, groups, and group memberships:
A group named adminuser.
A user natasha who belongs to adminuser as a secondary group A user harry who also belongs to adminuser as a secondary group.
A user sarah who does not have access to an interactive shell on the system, and who is not a member of adminuser, natasha, harry, and sarah should all have the password of redhat.

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Suggested Answer: See explanation below.
groupadd sysmgrs
useradd -G sysmgrs Natasha
We can verify the newly created user by cat /etc/passwd)
# useradd -G sysmgrs harry
# useradd -s /sbin/nologin sarrh
# passwd Natasha
# passwd harry
# passwd sarrah

by STFN2019 at Sept. 25, 2021, 9:10 p.m.

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STFN2019

Highly Voted 1 year, 3 months ago

Full solution: # groupadd adminuser # useradd -aG adminuser natasha # useradd -aG adminuser harry # useradd -s /sbin/nologin sarah # echo 'redhat' | passwd --stdin natasha # echo 'redhat' | passwd --stdin harry # echo 'redhat' | passwd --stdin sarah

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kitkat

6 months, 1 week ago

what is the a in -aG for? Help page for useradd has no mention of -a option.

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8 months ago

This is correct. On the useradd -s, "-s" is for "shell."

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