Joe, a member of the accounting group on a Linux system, is unable to write a file called 'taxes' in the accounting shared directory.
The ownership and permissions on the directory and file are as follows: accounting drwxrw-r-- user = ann, group = accounting taxes -rw-r--r-- , user = ann, group = accounting Which of the following commands would allow Joe to write to the file? (Choose two.)
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https://www.pluralsight.com/blog/it-ops/linux-file-permissionsBased on the information given, the user Joe
is a member of the accounting
group, and he is unable to write a file called taxes
in the accounting shared directory. The ownership and permissions on the directory and file are as follows:
csharpaccounting drwxrw-r-- user = ann, group = accounting taxes -rw-r--r-- user = ann, group = accounting
From the above output, it can be seen that the file taxes
is owned by user ann
and belongs to the accounting
group, and the group has only read permission. To allow Joe
to write to the file, we need to modify the file permissions or group ownership.
We have the following options to modify the permissions or group ownership:
A. chmod g+x accounting
: This command would add execute permission for the accounting
group on the accounting
directory. However, it does not address the issue with the file taxes
, and it does not give write permission to Joe
.
B. chmod 777 taxes
: This command would give read, write, and execute permission to everyone on the file taxes
. This would allow Joe
to write to the file, but it would also give everyone else access to the file, which might not be desirable.
C. chgrp taxes accounting
: This command would change the group ownership of the file taxes
to accounting
. However, it does not address the issue with the file permissions, and it does not give write permission to Joe
.
D. chgrp accounting taxes
: This command would change the group ownership of the file taxes
to accounting
, which is already the group that Joe
belongs to. However, it does not address the issue with the file permissions, and it does not give write permission to Joe
.
E. chmod 774 accounting
: This command would give read, write, and execute permission to the owner (ann
) and the group (accounting
) on the accounting
directory. However, it does not address the issue with the file taxes
, and it does not give write permission to Joe
.
F. chmod u+x accounting
: This command would add execute permission for the owner (ann
) on the accounting
directory. However, it does not address the issue with the file taxes
, and it does not give write permission to Joe
.
Based on the above analysis, the two commands that would allow Joe
to write to the file taxes
are:
chmod g+w taxes
: This command would give write permission to the group (accounting
) on the file taxes
, which would allow Joe
to write to the file.chmod g+w accounting
: This command would give write permission to the group (accounting
) on the accounting
directory, which would allow Joe
to create new files and write to existing files in the directory, including the file taxes
.