LPI LPIC-1:Linux Administrator (101-500)
Domain 4Objective 4
104.5 Manage File Permissions and Ownership LPIC-1 Practice Questions (Page 1)
Part of the Topic 104: Devices, Linux Filesystems, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard domain, which makes up ~14% of our current practice bank. Linux Professional Institute does not publish an official question count, but from its 90-minute exam (~35–60 total, ~5–8 in this domain), expect 1–1 from this objective — we provide 21 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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A user complains that new files they create in their home directory are readable by everyone on the system. They want new files to be readable and writable only by themselves, and new directories to be readable, writable, and listable only by themselves. What umask value should they set in their shell profile?
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A contractor who previously managed a web application has left the company. You need to transfer ownership of the entire /var/www/app directory tree to the user 'webadmin' and the group 'webteam', including all files and subdirectories. Which command accomplishes this in one operation?
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A web server needs to serve files from /var/www/html. The files must be readable by everyone, and the owner (root) needs full read/write/execute. The group should have read and execute only. Which command sets the correct permissions on the directory?
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What does the octal permission mode 755 represent in symbolic notation?
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An administrator needs to add execute permission for the owner of a script without changing any other permissions. Which chmod command accomplishes this?
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