Learning outcome 3
Identify and describe basic security issues of operating systems.
Skill drills that assess this outcome
- CSCD240-E1-A-Q04 primary short_answer permissions Given -rw-r-x--x 2 ssteiner faculty 4096 Apr 14 09:30 notes.sh — what does the - as first symbol mean?
- CSCD240-E1-A-Q05 primary essay permissions-anatomy Describe what r, w, x, and - mean and what each group of three symbols means.
- CSCD240-E1-A-Q06 primary short_answer permissions First symbol d — what does this mean?
- CSCD240-E1-A-Q07 primary short_answer permissions First symbol l — what does this mean?
- CSCD240-E1-A-Q09 primary short_answer permissions Who owns this file?
- CSCD240-E1-A-Q10 primary short_answer permissions What group does this file belong to?
- CSCD240-E1-A-Q23 primary performance signal ./daemon &. Terminate the JOB daemon (no other jobs active).
- CSCD240-E1-A-Q24 primary performance process-termination ./daemon &. Terminate the PROCESS via PID (PID=7291). Show PID discovery AND kill.
- CSCD240-E1-A-Q26 primary performance rm-recursive Using absolute path, remove subdirectory scratch under /home/ssteiner. Not in home dir.
- CSCD240-E1-A-Q34 primary performance grep Print lines of access.log containing 403 with their line numbers.
- CSCD240-E1-A-Q48 primary performance metadata Show detailed metadata for /etc/passwd: inode, all three timestamps, octal perms.
- CSCD240-E1-B-Q33 primary performance forensics-stat Print all metadata for /etc/passwd: inode, perms in octal, all three timestamps.
- CSCD240-E1-C-Q07 primary multiple_choice permissions First character of ls -l that identifies a symbolic link?
- CSCD240-E1-B-Q05 secondary short_answer permissions First symbol - on /usr/bin/passwd means what?