Exercises
Exercises
ce as criteria. Operating system installation and configuration What is a bootloader? Explain swap partition and its use. Applications system installation and configuration Explain the meaning of the following tools and tell their usage differences 1. dpkg 2. apt 3. apt get !. aptitude ". apt cache what is the difference between apt get update and apt get upgrade? User Administrations Exercises a#ailable on separate file Web Service $ell the two most widely used web ser#er softwares? %ow do you install apache? %ow do you check if apache is installed and is working? Where is the default document root of &pache in 'buntu? Where in the configuration file do you change the apache document root? %ow do you start(stop(restart apache? Name Service What is )*+? What does nslookup do? What is the difference between nslookup, dig and finger? What is -ully .ualified )omain *ame /f0dn1? 2i#e example. Explain the process of translating a ser#er hostname to ip address? DH ! Service What is the software we need to install to set up a dhcp ser#er in Linux? Where in the configuration file do we change the range of ip addressed to assign to clients? What option changes the lease duration to 13!2445?
"#! Service 6nstall and connect to #sftpd 7pen the (etc(#sftpd.conf file and examine its content. 'ncomment /remo#e the 8 at the beginning1 the lines to enable settings. What do these settings mean? anonymous9enable:;E+ write9enable:;E+ chroot9local9user:;E+ 'se 2'6 to upload files 1. 'se a 2'6 client to connect to the ser#er. 7n your host 7+, use -ile<illa, connect to your Linux=s 6> /they need to be in the same L&* though1. 2. 'se your user account and password. 3. $ry to upload and download files. !. ?reate /copy1 some files to the (sr#(ftp directory /this is the default -$> root for anonymous users1 ". 'se anonymous user /no id and password are re0uired1 to connect 5. $ry to upload and download files. #roubleshooting %ow do you check if your computer has ip address? %ow do you refresh dhcp lease refresh? %ow would you check the route table on a workstation(ser#er? What does @route= command do? %ow do you check path to reach to a destination host? Security Explain the fields of the password file? )istinguish between the different file permission? %ow does phishing differs from social engineering?