11/10/2019 TestOut LabSim

Exam Report: 8.9.10 Practice Questions

Date: 11/10/2019 1:50:22 pm Candidate: Recinos, William

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Individual Responses
Question 1: Correct

One of your users, Karen Scott, has recently married and is now Karen Jones. She has requested
that her username be changed from kscott to kjones, but no other values change. Which of the
following commands will accomplish this?

usermod -l kjones kscott

usermod -u kjones kscott

usermod -l kscott kjones

usermod -u kscott kjones

Explanation
Use the usermod utility to modify user settings. Use the -l flag to signal a change to the
username. The correct syntax requires the new username value be given, followed by the old
username. The -u flag changes the UID number.

References
LabSim for Security Pro, Section 8.9.
[All Questions SecPro2017_v6.exm LINUX_USRS_01]
Question 2: Correct

You have performed an audit and have found an active account for an employee with the
username joer. This user no longer works for the company.

Which command can you use to disable this account?

usermod -l joer

usermod -L joer

usermod -u joer

usermod -d joer

Explanation
Use usermod -L joer to lock the user's password, disabling the account.

usermod -l joer will change the account's login name. -d is used for changing the account's
home directory. -u is for changing the account's numeric ID.

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LabSim for Security Pro, Section 8.9.

An employee named Bob Smith, whose user name is bsmith, has left the company. You have
been instructed to delete his user account and home directory.

Which of the following commands would produce the required outcome? (Choose all that apply.)

userdel bsmith

userdel bsmith;rm -rf /home/bsmith

userdel -h bsmith

userdel -r bsmith

Explanation
userdel -r deletes a user's home directory and user account. The command userdel by itself
will not delete a user's home directory and user account. Executing rm -rf on the user's home
directory after executing userdel removes the home directory.

userdel -h displays the syntax and options for the userdel command.

References
LabSim for Security Pro, Section 8.9.
[All Questions SecPro2017_v6.exm LINUX_USRS_03]
Question 4: Correct

A user with the account name larry has just been terminated from the company. There is good
reason to believe that the user will attempt to access and damage files in the system in the very
near future.

Which of the following commands will disable or remove the user account from the system and
remove his home directory?

userdel -home larry

userdel -h larry

userdel larry

userdel -r larry

Explanation
Use the userdel command to delete a user from /etc/passwd and related files that allow
access. Use the -r option to also remove the home directory.

References
LabSim for Security Pro, Section 8.9.
[All Questions SecPro2017_v6.exm LINUX_USRS_04]
Question 5: Correct

In the /etc/shadow file, which character in the password field indicates that a standard user
account is locked?

Explanation
! or !! in the password field of /etc/shadow indicates that the account is locked and cannot be
used to log in. The /etc/shadow file holds passwords and password expiration information for
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user accounts.

$ preceding the password identifies the password as an encrypted entry. * indicates a system
user account entry (which cannot be used to log in).

References
LabSim for Security Pro, Section 8.9.
[All Questions SecPro2017_v6.exm LINUX_USRS_05]
Question 6: Correct

Which of the following utilities could you use to lock a user account? (Select two. Each answer
represents an independent solution.)

userdel

useradd

passwd

usermod

Explanation
Use the following utilities to lock a user account:
• passwd -l disables (locks) an account. This command inserts !! before the password in
the /etc/shadow file.
• usermod -L disables (locks) an account. This command inserts an ! before the password
in the /etc/shadow file.

useradd creates new user accounts, and userdel deletes user accounts from the system.

References
LabSim for Security Pro, Section 8.9.
[All Questions SecPro2017_v6.exm LINUX_USRS_06]
Question 7: Correct

You suspect that the gshant user account is locked.

Enter the command you use at the command prompt to show the status of the user account.

Explanation
passwd -S gshant displays the status of the gshant user account.
• LK indicates that the user account is locked.
• PS indicates that the user account has a password.

Viewing the /etc/shadow file will also display whether the user account is disabled. The second
field for each entry in the /etc/password file is the password field:
• $ preceding the password identifies the password as an encrypted entry.
• ! or !! indicates the account is locked and cannot be used to log in.
• * indicates a system account entry and cannot be used to log in.

References
LabSim for Security Pro, Section 8.9.
[All Questions SecPro2017_v6.exm LINUX_USRS_07]

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