Working with File and Directory Permissions on RHEL 8

In this lab you'll be a sysadmin who is setting up a shared directory on a server for collaboration between a set of users. You'll create the directory, setup the user accounts and group memberships, then create a test file from each user and inspect the results. You'll then modify the directory to force group ownership inheritance and then do a second set of test files and inspect what happened after the directory permission changes.

In the second task, you'll be creating another user with the system defaults and have that account try to join the collaboration directory, and then fix a series of permission and ownership issues to make her joining the group work properly. You'll then use a final special permission to ensure that while users can edit each other's files, no user can delete any file in the directory they don't own as the user owner.

Red Hat Exam Requirements Covered:

• Create and configure set-GID directories for collaboration
• Diagnose and correct file permission problems