To accomplish the lab assignment below, students will need to obtain a copy of the Fedora Image provided to you by the Substitute Instructor and complete a basic VMware installation of Fedora. The questions in the lab book will be based on the installation experience.

Assigned Pages: 27-39
Questions: 1 through 10.

This assignment is due by the beginning of class for Unit 4.

1. What is the significance of creating Groups and adding Users to Groups? Explain.
Creating groups and adding users to their groups is a form of access control. It basically separates each user into their own departments and allows only authorized users to access the file or directory. For instance, a user from the HR group will be able to access the "HR Records" file but are not allowed to access the Marketing Department files.
2. Given, the scenario where there are 5 database administrators that may periodically need to access to a given system. Discuss a concept to better manage these administrators’ access permissions. For the 5 database administrators, an account and password will be created for each user. A new group will be created for the users and then they will be added to the group. Group permissions can be defined within their departments direct which only the database administrators are allowed access.
3. The new web administrator’s account has been set up and a password provided. What is the process to force a password change upon first login? To force a user to change their password on the initial login, they must use the following command: chage -d 0 [username]
4. What is the purpose of the “su” command? Explain the significance. The purpose of typing the su command will allow a user to run root command without actually giving them root privileges.
5. Restricting the use of SU command can be configured using what mechanism? by accessing and configuring the