Basic Linux Commands Assignments
Assignment-1
Connect and disconnect with login Access
What happens when you login a non-existent users or username?
o Provide Screenshot and What you understand, explain in short brief?
If we try to login with the invalid user then it will throw am error because the user is not registered
Assignment-2
Password changing
Login into your account and then change password?
o Change your password into IneuR0n#42 and hit the Enter key
Explain what happen and give screenshot?
Password changed
o Try again to change password but use like password 1234 or abcd
Explain what happen and give screenshot?
Throwed an error and the limit should be min of 8 characters.
o Try again to change password but now don’t use any password just hit Enter key
Explain what happen and give screenshot?
Throwed error that the password is palindrome.
Assignment-3
Working with Directories
Enter the command cd / and then ls and then hit Enter key
o Take screenshot and explain what output we got?
Cd / takes us to system root directory and ls command gives us the folders and the files present in it
Enter the command now cd /home and then hit Enter key
o Do ls, provide screenshot and explain what is /home directory used for?
Cd / home command will takes us to the users directory which is under root
Enter cd .. and hit Enter key [ Note: here we have space after cd then use double dot]
o Check what happen and give screenshot?
By using cd .. command takes us to the one directory back .
Now enter cd /var/www/html and then type cd and hit Enter key
o Explain what happen and give screenshot?
The above command gives us the root folder of a web server as it was not installed
so it is showing directory not found error.
Now type cd /root and then hit Enter key
o Do ls, check any output we have on screen if yes then take screenshot?
It is a starter file contains settings.
Assignment-4
Working with File Listing
Go to cd /etc and type ls
o Take screenshot and explain what files you have seeing?
o Take screenshot and explain what different output you found compare to previous
command you used?
This command is used to access the configuration files
Then type ls -al and hit Enter key
o Take screenshot and explain what new file or directory you found?
This command gives the all files in the directories
Then use ls -i and hit Enter key
o Now see what different output its shows and take screenshot?
It lists the files in order
Then use ls –help and see other options about ls command
o Explore it and try with other attribute we can use with ls command
The correct command is ls --help
Assignment-5
Know where you are and where you working
Here we use pwd, cd and ls as combine task to understand where you working on terminal and how
you can switch from one directory to another one.
Open terminal after restart the linux
o Check which location you working, type pwd and take screenshot
This command gives us the present working directory
Now use cd /var and hit Enter key
o Do ls, and see what output comes, give screenshot?
This contains logs data and temporary files etc.
Do explore other help options of each command to learn more other things we can do with
these commands
