Tour the System

Linux lab Beginner 5 tasks 10 points

Leave your home directory and explore the rest of the machine. Use cd, ls and its options to find the answers.

How it works: the terminal below is a real Linux machine running in your browser. Click it and type. Tasks tick themselves off as you complete them; questions are answered in the box under each task. Press Reset any time for a fresh machine. Your password on this machine (for sudo) is student.

student@vulntech:~ Starting…
Getting your Linux machine ready…
The first start downloads about 20 MB. After that your browser keeps it, and labs start in a moment.

Hints

Look back at the table in A Tour of Important Directories.

-h makes sizes human-readable.

Solution explanation

Settings live in /etc and logs in /var/log, where the harbour directory holds arrivals.log. ls -lh /opt/cargo shows gold.bin at 3.0M. The administrator's home is /root, not /home/root.

Show solution
cd /etc
cd /var/log
ls harbour
ls -lh /opt/cargo
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