Exam #0 Practice Hints

  1. Write a command to make bash interperet ** in a wildcard to match all file and directory names
    1. man bash
    2. /**Enter # search for **, maybe more than once
  2. Explain how the system user sshd is prevented from logging in
    1. man 5 passwd # section 5 is files
    2. less /etc/passwd
    3. /sshdEnter # search for sshd
    4. man nologin
  3. Write the number of student accounts on the class server
    1. pwd # note parent directory
    2. ls -d /home1/sp26u*