Provisioning Desk · Lab

Create a Linux user account for a new hire

SY0-701 · 4.6

root@warehouse-01: ~ — secure shell

[root@warehouse-01 ~]#

The assignment

You run IT for Harbor Glass Logistics. A hiring manager has filed a provisioning ticket: a new inventory analyst starts in three weeks and needs a login on the warehouse host.

New hire: Renata Velasquez

Login name: rvelasquez

Temp password: brass7otter

You are signed in as root, so no sudo is needed. Work in the terminal to the left.

Steps — they check off as you go

Create the rvelasquez account.
Record the full name Renata Velasquez as the account comment.
Set the password to brass7otter.
View /etc/passwd to confirm the account exists.

Two questions

Q1Each line in /etc/passwd is a colon-separated record. Which field carries the readable name or comment you attached when creating the account?

The first field (the login name) The third field (the numeric UID) The fifth field (the comment / GECOS field) The seventh field (the login shell)

Q2You gave the new account a password without it ever showing on screen. Which command did that?

useradd passwd chmod cat

Submit your work

Hacker name (a pseudonym — no real names)

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