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# Assignment 2 - Questions

**Author:** Mrinal Ghimire

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### 1. Create User Accounts

Create the following users, groups, and group memberships:

* Create a group named **testing**.
* Create a user **natasha** who belongs to **testing** as a secondary group.
* Create a user **harry** who also belongs to **testing** as a secondary group.
* Create a user **sarah** who does **not** have access to an interactive shell on the system and is **not** a member of the **testing** group.
* Set the password for **natasha**, **harry**, and **sarah** to:

```
flectrag
```

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### 2. Create a Collaborative Directory

Create a collaborative directory named:

```
/home/admins
```

The directory must satisfy the following requirements:

* Group ownership of `/home/admins` is **testing**.
* Members of the **testing** group should have read, write, and execute permissions.
* No other users should have access to the directory (except the root user).
* Files created inside `/home/admins` should automatically inherit the **testing** group as their group owner.

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### 3. Configure `/var/tmp/fstab` Permissions

Copy the file:

```
/etc/fstab
```

to:

```
/var/tmp/fstab
```

Configure the permissions so that:

* The owner of `/var/tmp/fstab` is **root**.
* The group owner is **root**.
* The file is **not executable** by anyone.
* User **natasha** can read and write the file.
* User **harry** cannot read or write the file.
* All other users (current and future) can read the file.

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### 4. Configure a Cron Job

Configure a cron job for the user **natasha** that:

* Runs **every day**.
* Executes at **14:23** (local system time).
* Runs the following command:

```bash
/bin/echo hello
```

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### 5. Create a Compressed Archive

Create a compressed tar archive named:

```
/var/tmp/tmp.tar.bz2
```

Requirements:

* The archive must contain the entire contents of the `/tmp` directory.
* The archive must be compressed using **bzip2**.

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### Submission

Create a separate solution document containing the commands, outputs, and explanations for each task.


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