IST 190 TEST 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
The __________ application is a full-featured text editor for the GNOME desktop
environment. - Answers - gedit
____________ allows the output of a process to be manipulated and formatted by other
processes before it is output to standard out. - Answers - Pipelines
___________________ group membership is used to help ensure that users have
access permissions to files and other resources on the system. A user can have zero or
many _________________ group memberships. - Answers - supplementary
redirect stdout to overwrite a file - Answers - >file
redirect stdout to append to a file - Answers - >>file
redirect stderr to overwrite a file - Answers - 2>file
discard stderr error messages by redirecting to /dev/null - Answers - 2>/dev/null
Send output and errors to the same new, empty file - Answers - &>file
username is a mapping of a UID (to a name for the benefit of human users.) - Answers -
Field 1
password is where, historically ( passwords were kept in an encrypted format. Today
,they are stored in a separate file called /etc/shadow.) - Answers - Field 2
UID is a user ID a number( that identifies the user at the most fundamental level.) -
Answers - Field 3
GID is the user's primary group ID number ( Groups will be discussed in a moment.) -
Answers - Field 4
GECOS fields is arbitrary text ( which usually includes the users real name) - Answers -
Field 5
/homw/dir is the location of the user's personal data ( and configuration files) - Answers
- Field 6
shell is a program that runs as the user logs in ( for regular user, this is normally the
program that provides the user's command line prompt) - Answers - Field 7
The __________ application is a full-featured text editor for the GNOME desktop
environment. - Answers - gedit
____________ allows the output of a process to be manipulated and formatted by other
processes before it is output to standard out. - Answers - Pipelines
___________________ group membership is used to help ensure that users have
access permissions to files and other resources on the system. A user can have zero or
many _________________ group memberships. - Answers - supplementary
redirect stdout to overwrite a file - Answers - >file
redirect stdout to append to a file - Answers - >>file
redirect stderr to overwrite a file - Answers - 2>file
discard stderr error messages by redirecting to /dev/null - Answers - 2>/dev/null
Send output and errors to the same new, empty file - Answers - &>file
username is a mapping of a UID (to a name for the benefit of human users.) - Answers -
Field 1
password is where, historically ( passwords were kept in an encrypted format. Today
,they are stored in a separate file called /etc/shadow.) - Answers - Field 2
UID is a user ID a number( that identifies the user at the most fundamental level.) -
Answers - Field 3
GID is the user's primary group ID number ( Groups will be discussed in a moment.) -
Answers - Field 4
GECOS fields is arbitrary text ( which usually includes the users real name) - Answers -
Field 5
/homw/dir is the location of the user's personal data ( and configuration files) - Answers
- Field 6
shell is a program that runs as the user logs in ( for regular user, this is normally the
program that provides the user's command line prompt) - Answers - Field 7
