MN506 System Management: Comprehensive Lab Assignments on System Admin

This document presents a comprehensive set of laboratory assignments for the MN506 System Management course, focusing on practical skills in system administration. The labs cover a range of topics, including user and group management in Linux, file permissions, scripting, and the use of tools like htop and monit. Additionally, the assignments delve into Windows Server 2012, covering installation in VirtualBox, Active Directory setup, organizational units, user and computer object creation, and group policy configuration. The labs emphasize hands-on experience with both command-line interfaces and graphical user interfaces, providing a solid foundation in system administration tasks such as permission assignments, delegation of administrative control, and the creation and application of group policy objects.

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Lab 1
Authentication at the time of adding the user.
Adding user “Sam”
Password for authentication of the user

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Authentication for adding user
Adding group sam_group and adding the user sam in group

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Adding user sam and displaying the same

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Adding sam to the sam_group

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Creation of the file Current_User and modification of the file permission

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Printing three environment variables using echo

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Lab 2
Changing the permissions for the file New_Users
The Umask is used to define the file permission for the newly created files in the Linux
environment. For any file the 444 defines the user permission as read permission for
owner, group and Public.

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Writing script with vim

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Lab 3
Script
Execution of the Script