There were a few commands in this lab whose function I was well familiar with, but the commands themselves were new. For instance ifconfig instead of ipconfig to display your network information. Ping works pretty much exactly like it does… Continue Reading →

Lab 10 was all about subnetting and the basics or networking. Having a background in network administration, I was familiar with most of the concepts in this lab. Translating the ip addresses from ipv4 decimal to ipv4 binary was not… Continue Reading →

In this lab, we learned how to set task automation using scripts and crontab. We created a script that would, at a set time, create a backup of a user’s home directory, then zip it and send it to the… Continue Reading →

With the scripting lab, we used VI editor to create a simple script that would prompt for a user to enter a number, and the script would check whether the number was greater than 10, then echo a response depending… Continue Reading →

This lab was interesting because we had to create and mount virtual partitions. Using commands such as fdisk, parted, mkfs, df, and mount we played around with formatting and mounting a disk. I had some challenge with this lab in… Continue Reading →

The file permissions lab taught us about how Linux handles file permissions within the Linux Environment. For this lab we created groups and users and played around with adjusting group vs individual user permissions by logging into the different accounts… Continue Reading →

The Password Cracking lab was both one of the labs I had the most fun with, and also the one I did the worst on. We created six users with varying levels of password complexity, and were instructed to export… Continue Reading →

In this task we were introduced to Groups and User Management commands in the Linux environment. I was a little familiar with doing such things from my time in the Coast Guard. Though the Coast Guard does not use Linux,… Continue Reading →

In lab 3 we were introduced to the VI editor, a method of editing files within Linux. We used the vi command to open the file itself, and made some small adjustments to a test file called “copyright”. I did… Continue Reading →

In this lab we learned some basic Linux commands such as cd, ls, and cat. We were introduced to command line arguments which alter how the different commands behave such as -l for ls which gives a long list format… Continue Reading →