Linux Fundamentals Part 2
This guide contains the answer and steps necessary to get to them for the Linux Fundamentals Part 2 room.
Table of contents
- Introduction to Flags and Switches
- Filesystem Interaction Continued
- Permissions 101
- Common Directories
Introduction to Flags and Switches
We will begin by loggin into the machine via ssh.
ssh tryhackme@10.10.161.119
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What directional arrow key would we use to navigate down the manual page?
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down -
What flag would we use to display the output in a "human-readable" way?
Typing ls --help or man ls will give us the answer.
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-h
Filesystem Interaction Continued
- How would you create the file named "newnote"?
For this we can use the touch command.
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touch newnote
- On the deployable machine, what is the file type of "unknown1" in "tryhackme's" home directory?
For this we can use the file command.
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mv myfile myfolder
- What are the contents of this file?
Use cat to read the contents of a file.
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THM{FILESYSTEM}
Permissions 101
- On the deployable machine, who is the owner of "important"?
To find the owner of a file, we can use the command ls -la or ls -lh for less noise.
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user2
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What would the command be to switch to the user "user2"?
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su user2 -
Output the contents of "important", what is the flag?
Same as before, use cat.
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THM{SU_USER2}
Common Directories
These three questions can be answered using the information provided in the text.
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What is the directory path that would we expect logs to be stored in?
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/var/log -
What root directory is similar to how RAM on a computer works?
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/tmp -
Name the home directory of the root user
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/root