Questions

1. In which file would you configure complex password criteria?
2. When using the useradd utility on a RHEL 7-type machine, what should the UMASK setting be in the /etc/login.defs file?
3. When using the adduser utility on an Ubuntu 20.04 machine, how would you configure the /etc/adduser.conf file so that new users’ home directories will prevent other users from accessing them?
4. What change did the National Institute for Standards and Technology recently make to its recommended password policy?
5. Which three of the following utilities can you use to set user account expiry data?
   1. Useradd
   2. Adduser
   3. Usermod
   4. chage
6. Why might you want to lock out the user account of a former employee, rather than delete it?
   1. It’s easier to lock an account than it is to delete it.
   2. It takes too long to delete an account.
   3. It’s not possible to delete a user account.
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