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Employee 1 (Bob): Contacted by the Information Assurance (IA) Department and inf

ID: 3940890 • Letter: E

Question

Employee 1 (Bob): Contacted by the Information Assurance (IA) Department and informed that his account is in violation of company policy and that his password is visible in plain-text. His account was locked.

How do you find the incorrect configuration?

What are the corrective actions?

Employee 2 (Frank): Unable to log into his UNIX account. He receives the error message “su: failed to execute /dev/null: Permission denied."

How do you find the incorrect configuration?

How do you find the error message in the log?

What are the corrective actions?

Employee 3 (Henry): Reports that he receives the following error message when he logs into his UNIX account: “warning: cannot change directory to /home/henry: Permission denied” followed by the error “-bash: /home/henry/.bash_profile: Permission denied”. Oddly, his command prompt is different from what he usually sees as well.

What is wrong?

What are the corrective actions?

Explanation / Answer

Employee 1 (Bob):

The employee 1(Bob) password is visible in plain-text and his account was locked because of the below list of following reasons:

To find the incorrect configuration:

Global

UNIX password sync=yes

The corrective actions:

Change permission as below

# chmod a+x /dev

# chmod a+r /dev

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Employee 2 (Frank):

The employee 2(frank) receives the error message due to following reasons:

The incorrect configuration:

      rm /dev/null

      mknod /dev/null c 1 3

      chmod 666 /dev/null

The corrective actions:

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Employee 3 (Henry):

What is wrong?

The corrective actions:

Therefore, to resolve this run the below commands:

sudo chmod 774 .*

in /home/henry, you need to include the file, and
then /home/henry/.. is the same as /home directory.

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