Mastering Linux Security and Hardening - Second Edition

Auditing a directory

Vicky and Cleopatra, my solid gray kitty and my gray-and-white tabby kitty, have some super sensitive secrets that they need to safeguard. So, I created the secretcats group and added them to it. Then, I created the secretcats shared directory and set the access controls on it, as I showed you how to do in Chapter 8, 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 ...