IFSM 430
Lab exercise

Name: ____________________________

On W9x start telnet.  Connect to 202.239.133.19.  Login, your username
is your last name, password is XXXXXX.  

Look at the /etc/passwd file by using the 'more' command: 
  more /etc/passwd 
Find your entry in it.  Encrypted password is the second
field in the colon delimited record.  What is your encrypted password
(write down only the first few characters)?

Now change your password by using the passwd command.  The passwd
command enforces a "good" password.  The encrypted password will be
put into the /etc/shadow file.  Find your entry in the passwd file
again; what is the password field now?

Try to 'more' the shadow file.  What is the result?

What are the permissions of the passwd and shadow files?
Who is the owner of those files?

What are the permissions of /home/wills/penguin.gif?
Who is the owner of that file?

Copy that file into your home directory:  cp is the copy command; its
format is: cp srcFile copyfile
  cp /home/wills/penguin.gif penguin.gif

What are the permissions of your copy of the penguin.gif file?
Who is the owner of your copy?

Make a copy of the penguin.gif file as p2.gif:
  cp penguin.gif p2.gif
What are the permissions of th p2.gif?
Who is the owner of it?

Create a new file using the text editor pico.  Issue the 'pico'
command.  Once in pico, type a couple of lines of text and the exit
and save the file.  Note that ^X means hold down the Ctrl key and
press x.

What are the permissions of the new file?

What is your umask setting?  Issue the 'umask' command.