Mastering Linux Security and Hardening - Second Edition

Hands-on lab – creating a shared group directory

For this lab, you'll just put together everything that you've learned in this chapter to create a shared directory for a group. You can do this on either of your virtual machines:

1. On either virtual machine, create the sales group:

sudo groupadd sales

2. Create the users mimi, mrgray, and mommy, adding them to the sales group as you create the accounts.

On the CentOS VM, do the following:

sudo useradd -G sales mimisudo useradd -G sales mrgraysudo useradd -G sales mommy

On the Ubuntu VM, do the following:

sudo useradd -m -d /home/mimi -s /bin/bash -G sales mimisudo useradd -m -d /home/mrgray -s /bin/bash -G sales mrgraysudo useradd -m -d /home/mommy -s /bin/bash -G sales mommy

3. Assign each user ...