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1Z0-821 · Question #88

You are asked to determine user jack's default login directory. Which command would provide you with useful information?

The correct answer is A. cat /etc/passwd | grep jack. The /etc/passwd contains one entry per line for each user (or user account) of the system. All fields are separated by a colon (:) symbol. Total seven fields as follows. 1. Username: It is used when user logs in. It should be between 1 and 32 characters in length. 2. Password…

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Question

You are asked to determine user jack's default login directory. Which command would provide you with useful information?

Options

  • Acat /etc/passwd | grep jack
  • Bcat /etc/group | grep jack
  • Ccat /etc/shadow | grep jack
  • Dcat /etc/default/passwd | grep jack

How the community answered

(44 responses)
  • A
    75% (33)
  • B
    5% (2)
  • C
    14% (6)
  • D
    7% (3)

Explanation

The /etc/passwd contains one entry per line for each user (or user account) of the system. All fields are separated by a colon (:) symbol. Total seven fields as follows. 1. Username: It is used when user logs in. It should be between 1 and 32 characters in length. 2. Password: An x character indicates that encrypted password is stored in /etc/shadow file. 3. User ID (UID): Each user must be assigned a user ID (UID). UID 0 (zero) is reserved for root and UIDs 1-99 are reserved for other predefined accounts. Further UID 100-999 are reserved by system for administrative and system accounts/groups. 4. Group ID (GID): The primary group ID (stored in /etc/group file) 5. User ID Info: The comment field. It allow you to add extra information about the users such as user's full name, phone number etc. This field use by finger command. 6. Home directory: The absolute path to the directory the user will be in when they log in. If this directory does not exists then users directory becomes / 7. Command/shell: The absolute path of a command or shell (/bin/bash). Typically, this is a shell. Please note that it does not have to be a shell.

Topics

#/etc/passwd#home directory#user account lookup#grep

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