RHCSA EXAM MODEL QUESTION
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Crack root password
Set hostname
Set IP Address
yum repo
SELinux Enforcing
Cracking root password
use ctl+alt+del in send keys tab in virtual server m/c
when grub displays press tab key to freeze .Press e to edit grub
new password:
confirm password:
sh] touch /autorelabel
search for Linux16 string and press end key and add this line
exit
rd.break console=tty
press ctl+x to save and restart
#root: mount -o remount,rw /sysroot
#chroot /sysroot/
sh] passwd
exit
Setting hostname
Setting hostname
#hostname (or) #cat /etc/hostname
displays the current hostname
Change host temporarily
#host newhostname
change host permanently
#hostctl set-hostname newhostname
Setting hostname using nmtui
#nmtui
Setting IP Address
Using nmcli
Activate connection
Setting IP
#nmcli device status
#nmcli connection up con-name
Can be in 3 ways
adding connection
Restart network
#nmcli connection.add con-name as ifname etho
type ethernet ip4 172.25.7.0 gw4 172.25.0.0
#systemctl restart network
Network Manager (GUI)
nmcli
nmtui
To check
set dns
Using Network Manager
#ifconfig
#nmcli connection modify as ip4.dns 172.25.6.8
Go to right top where network manager icon and set
ip,dns and gateway address from the question
manual assign
Using nmtui
#nmcli connection modify as ip4.method manual
#nmtui
Set auto connect
Set the values for ip,dns,gateway
#nmcli connection modify as connection.
autoconnect yes
#cat /etc/resolv.conf
Setting yum repo and SElinux
Setting yum repo
#cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
#vim myown.repo
[myown]
baseurl=paste the url from the question
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
:wq
#yum clean all
#yum repolist all
#yum install any package to check if its installing from our own repo
Set SELinux Permission
#vim /etc/sysconfig/selinux
change the line selinux=premissive
to
selinux=enforcing
:wq
#getenforce
1 . swap partition
#fdisk -l
:n
#fdisk /dev/vda
default(first sector)
P - print the list of pratitions
default(last sector) +100M
n - create new partition
e or p (extended or primary)
l: 82 ( linux swap type)
:e
:p (to print the partitions)
default(first sector)
:w (to save the changes)
default(last sector)
#partprobe (intimate to kernel)
#mkswap /dev/vda2
#mkdir /test
#vim /etc/fstab
/dev/vda2 /test swap swap defaults 0 0
#swapon -a
#mount -a
#df -h
/dev/vda2 /test
100M
2 . user, group creation with permissions
User creation with UID
# date -d +1month
Setting permission for file or folder
#useradd -u 2323 ashwin
# usermod -e YYYY-MM-DD ashwin
#chmod u-x,g-x,o-x /file or /folder
#passwd ashwin
or # chage -E YYYY-MM-DD ashwin
removes execute permission to all
#cat /etc/passwd
# chage -l ashwin
#setfacl -m u:ashwin: 0 /file or /folder/
User creation with no login shell
Group creation and adding user
removes read/write for user ashwin
#useradd -s /bin/nologin kaviya
#groudadd sysmanager
#chmod g+rwx,o= /file or folder
#passwd kaviya
#chgrp sysmanager ashwin
others dont have permission to read,write
#su - kayiva
Adding to user when creating user
#chmod g+s /file or folder
Not allowed
#useradd -G sysmanager ashwin
files will be created in group ownership
automatically
3 . Crontab
Set cronjon for user to /bin/echo string at h:m
Deny Cron for specific user
#crontab -e -u username
#vim /etc/cron.deny
m h * * * /bin/echo "string"
ashwin
#systemctl restart crond.service
#su - username
#crontab -e -u ashwin
#mail
This program is not allowed
4 . find grep copy command combined & collaborative directory
Creating Collaborative directory
Locate files of user and copy to to some path
#mkdir -p /a/b
#find / -user ashwin -exec cp -a {}/file path \;
#chgrp sysmanager /a/b
Note: If path doesnt exists create using mkdir
#chmod g+rw,o= /a/b
Find string in all file and copy to some path
#grep "string" /source > /destination path
or
#chmod 770 /a/b
sets read,write to group sysmanger and other no
permission to access /a/b
#chmod g+s /a/b
sets group permission automatically when files created
in that directory
5 . LDAP
Autofs
Setting LDAP
#yum install authconfig-gtk* ssd* krb5* -y
#authconfig-gtk
#yum install autofs* -y
#systemctl restart autofs
#systemctl enable autofs
#vim /etc/auto.master
Set all the values from question
/rhome /etc/auto.misc
#getent passwd ldauserx( x denotes station
number)
You can see details about ldapuserx
#vim /etc/auto.misc
ldapuserx -rw,sync,nfvers=3 servername:/rhome/ldapuserx
#systemctl restart autofs
#systemctl enable autofs
#su - ldapuserx #ls
#cd ldapuserx
6 . LVM
LVM reduce
LVM Increase
#lvdisplay
#lvdisplay
#vim /etc/fstab
#vim /etc/fstab
#umount /dev/vgname/vo
#umount /dev/vgname
#e2fsck -f /dev/vgname/vo
#e2fsck -f /dev/vgname
#resize2fs -p* /dev/vgname/vo 120M
#lvextend -L 120M /dev/vgname
#lvreduce -L 120M /dev/vgname/vo
#resize2fs -p /dev/
#mount /dev/vgname
#mount /dev/vgname
#lvdisplay
#lvdisplay
#df -h
#df -h
7 . LVM creation
Convert volume to filesystem
Creating physical volume
#fdisk -l
:n
#pvcreate /dev/vdb4
#fdisk /dev/vda
default(first sector)
Creating volume group
P - print the list of pratitions
default(last sector) +100M
n - create new partition
e or p (extended or primary)
l: 83 ( linux LVM type)
#lvcreate -l 35 -n volname
/dev/mapper/vgname
:e
:p (to print the partitions)
Display volume
default(first sector)
:w (to save the changes)
#lvdisplay
default(last sector)
#partprobe (intimate to kernel)
#mkfs.ext3
/dev/mapper/vgnanme/volna
me
#mkfs.vfat
/dev/mapper/vgname/volnam
#vgcreate -s 8M vgname /dev/vdb4
e
Creating volume
Create directory to mount
#mkdir /lvm
Add entry to fstab
#/dev/mapper/vgname /lvm
ext3 defaults 0 0
:wq
Refresh using mount
#mount -a
List the mounted directory
#df -h
8 . Kernel update ,compression & NTP service
Kernel Update
download the file from the given url using ezlink
#rpm -vh package name
#reboot
NTP Service
#vim /etc/chrony.conf
add the source url given the question for NTP
Compression methods:
tar
#tar -cvf /destionationpath/filename.tar /source path
bz2
#tar -cvjf /destionationpath/filename.bz2 /source path
gz
#tar -cvzf /destionationpath/filename.gz /source path
xz
#tar -cvJf /destionationpath/filename.xz /source path
Problem in booting due to wrong entry in /etc/fstab
Booting in emergency target:
use ctl+alt+del in send keys tab in virtual server m/c
when grub displays press tab key to freeze .Press e to edit grub
search for Linux16 string and press end key and add this line
systemd.unit =emergency.target
use ctl+x to save and reboot
#root: mount -o remount,rw /
#vim /etct/fstab
remove the wrong entry and save using :wq
#reboot
