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Mastering Linux Security and Hardening - Second Edition
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Mastering Linux Security and Hardening - Second Edition

by Donald A. Tevault
February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
666 pages
15h 45m
English
Packt Publishing
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Questions

  1. Which two of the following are log files that record authentication-related events?

A. syslog B. authentication.log C. auth.log D. secure.log E. secure

  1. Which log file contains the current record about who is logged into the system and what they're doing?

A. /var/log/syslog B. /var/log/utmp C. /var/log/btmp D. /var/run/utmp

  1. Which of the following is the main logging system that runs on pretty much every modern Linux distro?

A. syslog B. rsyslog C. journald D. syslog-ng

  1. Which of the following is peculiar to RHEL 8 and its offspring, such as CentOS 8?

A. On RHEL 8 systems, journald collects log data from the rest of the system and sends it to rsyslog. B. On RHEL 8 systems, journald has completely replaced rsyslog. C. On RHEL ...

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