Objective 5.3 covers basic file permissions and ownership. I already have a guide covering this topic pretty well, so I will refer you to it. For understanding setuid and setgid programs, I wrote a guide demonstrating how they work. If you end up working with Linux professionally, you will need to understand file permissions very… Read More »
Linux Essentials Objective 5.2 is about creating users and groups. How you go about this depends on your system, but this section is written with the assumption that you are using local files. Just be aware that some systems can use things like Hesiod or LDAP to store login information. This topic can get pretty… Read More »
This objective is about navigating the filesystem through the command line. Unlike Windows systems, Linux systems don’t use drive letters. Instead, they use mount points. On a Linux system, the filesystem begins at /, known as the root directory, instead of the respective drive letter for the storage device or network share. You access the… Read More »
The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Exam 010 objective 1.2 is awareness of major open source applications and their development. This guide applies to exam version 1.6. Disclaimer: I have not taken the exam. I do have more than a decade of professional experience working with Linux and open source software. Using my study guide does… Read More »