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Mastering Linux Security and Hardening
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Mastering Linux Security and Hardening

by Donald A. Tevault
January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
376 pages
8h 45m
English
Packt Publishing
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Auditing a directory

Vicky and Cleopatra, my solid gray kitty and my gray-and-white tabby kitty, have some supersensitive secrets that they need to safeguard. So, I created the secretcats group and added them to it. I then created the secretcats shared directory and set the access controls on it as I showed you how to do in Chapter 6, Access Control Lists and Shared Directory Management:

[donnie@localhost ~]$ sudo groupadd secretcats[sudo] password for donnie:[donnie@localhost ~]$ sudo usermod -a -G secretcats vicky[donnie@localhost ~]$ sudo usermod -a -G secretcats cleopatra[donnie@localhost ~]$ sudo mkdir /secretcats[donnie@localhost ~]$ sudo chown nobody:secretcats /secretcats/[donnie@localhost ~]$ sudo chmod 3770 /secretcats/[donnie@localhost ...
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