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# What command can you use to review boot messages?

# What file defines the levels of messages written to system log files?

# What account is created when you install Linux?

# While logged on as a regular user, your boss calls up and wants you to create a new user account immediately. How can you do this without first having to close your work, log off and logon as root? Choose one:
a. Issue the command rootlog.
b. Issue the command su and type exit when finished.
c. Issue the command su and type logoff when finished.
d. Issue the command logon root and type exit when finished.

# Which file defines all users on your system? Choose one:
a. /etc/passwd
b. /etc/users
c. /etc/password
d. /etc/user.conf

# There are seven fields in the /etc/passwd file. Which of the following lists all the fields in the correct order? Choose one:
a. username, UID, GID, home directory, command, comment
b. username, UID, GID, comment, home directory, command
c. UID, username, GID, home directory, comment, command
d. username, UID, group name, GID, home directory, comment

# Which of the following user names is invalid? Choose one:
a. Theresa Hadden
b. thadden
c. TheresaH
d. T.H.

# In order to prevent a user from logging in, you can add a(n) ________at the beginning of the password field.

# The beginning user identifier is defined in the _________ file.

# Which field is used to define the user’s default shell?

# Bob Armstrong, who has a username of boba, calls to tell you he forgot his password. What command should you use to reset his command?

# Your company has implemented a policy that users’ passwords must be reset every ninety days. Since you have over 100 users you created a file with each username and the new password. How are you going to change the old passwords to the new ones? Choose one:
a. Use the chpasswd command along with the name of the file containing the new passwords.
b. Use the passwd command with the -f option and the name of the file containing the new passwords.
c. Open the /etc/passwd file in a text editor and manually change each password.
d. Use the passwd command with the -u option.