Linux Fundamental Part 2Tryhackme Walkthrough/Writeup
Tasks Linux Fundamentals Part 2
· Task 1: Introduction
· Task 2: Accessing Your Linux Machine Using SSH (Deploy)
· Task 3: Introduction to Flags and Switches
· Task 4: Filesystem Interaction Continued
· Task 5: Permissions 101
· Task 6: Common Directories
· Task 7: Conclusions and Summaries
Task 1
Read all that is in this task and press complete
Task 2
Start the machine attached to this room and make the ssh connection
ssh tryhackme@<MACHINE_IP>
use the password provided in the task
Task 3
3.1 What directional arrow key would we use to navigate down the manual page?
Type in the following command to get the man pages for LS
man ls
Answer: Downs
3.2 What flag would we use to display the output in a “human-readable” way?
Answer: -h
Task 4
Read all that is in the task
4.1 How would you create the file named “newnote”?
Answer: touch newnote
4.2 On the deployable machine, what is the file type of “unknown1” in “tryhackme’s” home directory?
Type in the command
file unknown1
Answer: ASCII text
4.3 How would we move the file “myfile” to the directory “myfolder”
Answer: mv myfile myfolder
4.4 What are the contents of this file?
Type in the command
cat myfile
Type in the output as the answer
Task 5
Rights on files are very important make sure you read all that is in this task
5.1 On the deployable machine, who is the owner of “important”?
Type in the command to see all the information about all the files in the current directory
ls -al
5.2 What would the command be to switch to the user “user2”?
Answer: su user2
5.3 Output the contents of “important”, what is the flag?
Switch to user2 by typing in the following command and user the login name as password
su user2
to output the answer type in the following command
cat important
Task 6
Read all that is in the task. The explanation is very well
6.1 What is the directory path that would we expect logs to be stored in?
Answer: /var/log
6.2 What root directory is similar to how RAM on a computer works?
Answer: /tmp
6.3 Name the home directory of the root user
Answer: /root
Task 7
SUMMARY
Advancing your use of commands by providing flags, switches and where you can go to learn about these for each command (man pages)
Some more commands that you’ll frequently be using to interact with the file system and its contents.
A brief introduction to file permissions & switching users.
