RHCE EXAM MODEL Q.

PAPER AND ANSWERS

Duration: 3 hours
SECTION 1--- Troubleshooting and System Maintenance
Start your pc in Single usermode and set one password for user root . (No dictionary word,Min.8Char.)
The System loaded to graphics mode manually. Then, you saw a Question paper link in Dektop and
Open that link.

Sometimes Graphical mode is in error. Then you login your pc in text mode
#vi /etc/inittab
line no. 18
id:5:initdefault
remove # symbol of the last line(by default no #symbol)
:wq
#service xfs restart
#chattr -i /etc/X11/xorg.conf
#system-config-display

Open terminal in Graphics mode and type ‘hostname’ command for checking your machine hostname

1. The examiner can log into your system as root using the password uX4L7jWR.
The home directory must be /root.

Ans: #pwconv
‘passwd ‘command for changing root password
2. ping 192.168.0.254 is successful, and your system uses static networking as
described in /root/network.txt

Ans: #cat /etc/network.txt

Then read ip,subnet mask,gateway and dns addresses
type system-config-network
enter ip,subnet mask and gateway  apply ok
#vi /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver <dns ip address>
:wq
#service network restart
3. dig server1.example.com successfully resolves that hostname using DNS

Ans: its dns problem. Already configured in 2nd questn.

4. Your system has a new 300MB partition mounted under /mnt/policy with a 300MB
ext3 filesystem. Note: because partition sizes are seldom exactly what is specified when they are
created, anything within the range of 275 to 375MB is acceptable .

Ans: fdisk –l
fdisk /dev/hda
type ‘n’ buttonenter
first cylindersize: enter
last cylindersize:+300M enter
type ‘w’ for save and exit
#partprobe
#mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda10(new partition)
#mkdir /mnt/policy
#vi /etc/fstab
 type
/dev/hda10 /mnt/policy auto defaults 0 0
:wq
#mount –a
#df (display mounted partition size information)

5.Services:(T05) the requirement described in /root/services is met

Ans: #cat /root/services

#vim /etc/exports

/documents *(rw,sync)

:wq
#service portmap restart
#service nfs restart
6.Wildcard:(T06) the requirement described in /root/wildcard is met

Ans: #cat /etc/wildcard

#vim /etc/fstab
edit home entry line.

/dev/hda10 /home auto defaults,usrquota 0 0

:wq
#mount –o remount /home
#mount
#quotacheck –c /home
#quotaon /home

7.Storage:(T10) the requirement described in /root/lvm is met

Ans: #cat /root/services

#lvdisplay
umount logical volume
#lvextend -L+80M /dev/vol/homevol
#resize2fs /dev/vol/homevol
mount logical volume

SECTION2--- Installation and Configuration

1.Install the dialog RPM package using YUM. (optional)

YUM ftp://server1.example.com/pub/Server
Ans: #cd /etc/yum.repos.d
#cp rhel-deguginfo.repo abc.repo
#vim abc.repo
change ‘base url’ line and enabled yum

baseurl=ftp://server1.example.com/pub/Server
enabled = 0  1 (change to 1)

:wq

#yum install dialog*

2. Create the following users, groups, and group memberships:

A group named usergroup
A user who tony belongs to usergroup as a secondary group
A user paula who also belongs to usergroup as a secondary group
A user mario who does not have access to an interactive shell on the system, and who is not a
member of usergroup
tony, paula, and mario should all have the password of password

Ans : #groupadd usergroup

#useradd tony
#useradd paula
#gpasswd -a tony usergroup
#gpasswd -a paula usergroup
#useradd -s /bin/nologin Mario

#passwd tony
New password: password
Retype password: password

3. Create a collaborative directory /common/usergroup with the following characteristics:

Group ownership of /common/usergroup is usergroup
The directory should be readable, writable, and accessible to members of usergroup, but not to
any other user. (It is understood that root has access to all files and directories on the system.)
Files created in /common/usergroup automatically have group ownership set to the usergroup
Group
Ans: mkdir /common/usergroup
chgrp usergroup /common/usergroup
chmod 2770 /common/usergroup

4. Install the appropriate kernel update from ftp://server1.example.com/pub/updates. The following

criteria must also be met:
The updated kernel is the default kernel when the system is rebooted
The original kernel remains available and bootable on the system
Ans: #ftp server1.example.com
Login: anonymous
password: <none>
ftp> cd pub/updates
#ftp>ls
#ftp>get <kernel RPM name>
#ftp>bye
#ls
#rpm –ivh <kernel RPM name>
OR
#rpm -ivh ftp://server1.example.com/pub/updates/kernel*
Then
#vi /etc/grub.conf
Change ‘default’ is 0
:wq
5. Enable IP forwarding on your machine.

Ans: #vi /etc/sysctl.conf

line no.7
net.ipv4.ip_forward=0 --- 1 (change to 1)
:wq
6. Set up thedefault local print queue to forward jobs to the IPP (CUPS) print
queuestationxonserver1.example.com, where x is your station number. Configure this printer as ‘Generic-
text’ only print queue.
Note: The queue stationx on server1 dumps print jobs into the file http://server1/printers/stationx.
This file can be examined to confirm that you have configured the print queue correctly.

Ans: Open new terminal type ‘service cups restart’enter

type ‘system-config-printer’enterclick ‘New Printer’type printer name as

‘station4’forward

select ‘internet printing protocol’ and type Hostname and Domainname

Hostname= server1.example.com Printername= station4

forwardselect ‘Generic’forwardselect’Text Only’ from

ModelsforwardApply

Select printer name(station4) in side bar click ‘Make Default Printer’ and ‘Print
test page’

close

#service cups restart

#chkconfig network on

#chkconfig cups on
7. The user tony must configure a cron job that runs daily at 16:45 local time and executes
/bin/echo ciao

Ans: #crontab -e -u tony

45 16 * * * /bin/echo ciao

:wq
#service crond restart
#chkconfig crond on

8. Bind to the NIS domain GELATO provided by 192.168.0.254 for user authentication. Note the
following:
nisuserx should be able to log into your system, where x is your station number, but will not have
a home directory until you have completed the autofs requirement below
All NIS users have a password of password

Ans: #authconfig-tui
click ‘Use NIS’Next
type Domain name and server address
Domain GELATO
Server 192.168.0.254
ok

login your user (eg:username is nisuser10,if your station no. is 10) and password
is password
we can’t get home directory
9. Configure autofs to automount the home directories of NIS users. Note the following:
server1.example.com (192.168.0.254) NFS-exports /rhome/stationx to your system, where
x is your station number
nisuserx's home directory is server1.example.com:/rhome/stationx/nisuserx
nisuserx's home directory should be automounted locally beneath /rhome as /rhome/nisuserx
home directories must be writable by their users
While you are able to log in as any of the users nisuser1 through nisuser20, the only home
directory that is accessible from your system is nisuserx.

Ans: #vi /etc/auto.master

move to end line and type

/rhome /etc/auto.misc
:wq

#vi /etc/auto.misc

move to last line and type this

nisuser10 - -rw,sync 192.168.0.254:/rhome/station10/nisuser10

:wq

#service autofs restart

#chkconfig autofs on

Login your user ,then we get home directory of that particular user
10. Copy the file /etc/fstab to /var/tmp. Configure the permissions of /var/tmp/fstab so that

the file /var/tmp/fstab is owned by the root user.

the file /var/tmp/fstab belongs to the group root.
the file /var/tmp/fstab should not be executable by anyone.
the user tony is able to read and write /var/tmp/fstab
the user paula can neither write nor read /var/tmp/fstab
all other users (current or future) have the ability to read /var/tmp/fstab.

Ans: #cp /etc/fstab /var/tmp

#ls - l /var/tmp/fstab
#setfacl –m u:tony:rw /var/tmp/fstab
#setfacl –m u:paula:0 /var/tmp/fstab
#chmod 644 /var/tmp/fstab
#umask 022

11.Configure your system so that it is an NTP client of server1.example.com

Ans: Open terminal type ‘system-config-date’

select ‘Network Time Protocol’click ‘enable network time protocol’delete all

entries

click ‘Add ‘buttontype ‘server1.example.com’and click ‘enter’ button

Then click ‘show advanced option’ enable ‘synchronize system clock before
starting service’

and disable ‘use local time source’ ok

RHCE (Network Services and Security) Requirements

SELinux must be running in Enforcing mode.
We are using two Networks in this section. Networks and dns names are mentioned below

192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 – example.com
192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 – my133t.org

1.Configure SSH access as follows:

paula has remote SSH access to your machine from within example.com
Clients within my133t.org should NOT have access to ssh on your system

Ans: #service sshd restart

#iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 - -dport 22 -j REJECT
#service iptables save
#service iptables restart
 OR
#vi /etc/hosts.allow
sshd:192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
:wq
#vi /etc/hosts.deny
sshd:192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
:wq
#chkconfig sshd on

2.Configure POP3 email on your system according to these criteria:

mario must be able to retrieve email from your machine using POP3 from within example.com
Clients within the my133t.org domain should not have access to your POP3 service

Ans: #service sendmail restart

#iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 - -dport pop3 -j
REJECT
#chkconfig sendmail on
3.Configure FTP access on your system:
Clients within the example.com domain should have anonymous FTP access to your machine
Clients outside example.com should NOT have access to your FTP service

Ans: #service vsftpd restart

#vi /etc/hosts.deny
vsftpd:ALL EXCEPT 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
:wq
#chkconfig vsftpd on
4.Share the /common directory via SMB:
Your SMB server must be a member of the STAFF workgroup
The share's name must be common
The common share must be available to example.com domain clients only
The common share must be browseable
paula must have read access to the share, authenticating with the same password password, if
necessary

Ans: #service smb restart

#vi /etc/samba/smb.conf
Line no. 74
Change Workgroup name
workgroup = STAFF
copy and then paste last 7 lines using ’yy -- p’ command
Changes:-

[common]
comment = public stuff
path = /common
valid users = paula
public = yes
browseable = yes
writable = yes
hosts allow = 192.168.0. 127.
:wq
 #smbpasswd -a paula
New smb password: password
Retype New smb password: password
#service smb restart
#chkconfig smb on
5.Implement a web server for the site http://stationX.example.com, then perform the following steps:
Download ftp://server1.example.com/pub/rhce/station.html
Rename the downloaded file to index.html
Copy this index.html to the DocumentRoot of your web server
Do NOT make any modifications to the content of index.html

Ans: #service httpd restart

#cd /var/www/html
#ftp server1.example.com
login:anonymous
password: <none>
ftp>cd pub/rhce
ftp>get station.html
ftp>bye
#mv station.html index.html
#vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
move to line no. 972

#NameVirtual Host *:80

remove # symbol and change * to your pc ip address
eg: NameVirtualHost 192.168.0.12:80

copy last 7 lines and paste

Remove all # symbols of these lines

Changes:
<Virtual Host 192.168.0.12:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
server Name station12.example.com
ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
</Virtual Host>
:wq

#service httpd restart

#chkconfig httpd on
Open Mozilla Web Browser
type http://station12.example.com enter
6.Export your /common directory via NFS to the example.com domain only.
Note: because you will not have root access, you will not be able to directly mount your exported
/common directory using your guest account on the system provided for testing. However, the
automounter
on the system has been configured such that it will automount your /common directory under
/home/guestx/nfs/stationx, where x is your station number. Consequently, successful execution of
ls /home/guestx/nfs/stationx indicates that the automounter was able to automount your NFS
share.
Ans: #vi /etc/exports
/common 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw,sync)
:wq
#exportfs
#service portmap restart
#service nfs restart
#chkconfig portmap on
#chkconfig nfs on
7.Configure an email alias for your MTA such that mail sent to admin is received by the local user tony.

Ans: #vi /etc/aliases

admin: tony
:wq
#newaliases

8.Configure SMTP mail service according to the following requirements:

Your mail server should accept mail from remote hosts and localhost
paula must be able to receive mail from remote hosts
Mail delivered to paula should spool into the default mail spool for paula, /var/spool/mail/paula

Ans: #vi /etc/mail/sendmail.mc

Line No.116
Type dnl in front of the line
Eg: dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS …..
:wq
#make -C /etc/mail
#service sendmail restart
#chkconfig sendmail on

.Additional RHCE Requirements

1. Provide SSL-encapsulated IMAP access (IMAPS):
IMAPS must be available to mario from example.com
IMAPS must NOT be available to other networks or domains.
The SSL certi_cate for the IMAPS server must be created as follows:
Use the defaults for Country, State, Locality, and Organization Name
Set Organizational Unit to GLS
Set Common Name to stationx.example.com
Set Email Address to root@stationx.example.com

Ans: #cd /etc/pki/tls/certs

make dovecot.pem
set Organizational Unit name to GLS, Common Name to
station12.example.com and Email Address to root@station12.example.com
Don’t change other entries
#vi /etc/dovecot.conf
Line No.17
 Remove # symbol,IMAP and POP3s
Correct Line:-
protocols = IMAPs POP3
Line No. 87 & 88
Remove # symbols

ssl_cert_file = /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/dovecot.pem
ssl_key_file = /etc/pki/dovecot/private/dovecot.pem
:wq
#vi /etc/hosts.deny
dovecot : ALL EXCEPT 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
:wq
#service dovecot restart
#chkconfig dovecot on
2.Implement a web proxy server bound to port 8080.
Clients within example.com should have access to your proxy server
Clients outside of example.com should NOT have access to your proxy server

Ans: #service squid restart

#vi /etc/squid/squid.conf
Line No:73
http port 3128 change to 8080
Line No.2394
Copy the line and paste
acl hello src 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
Line No.2527 & 2528
Change to
http_access allow hello
http_access deny all
:wq
#chkconfig squid on
3.Extend your web server to include a virtual host for the site http://wwwx.example.com/, where x is
your station number, then perform the following steps:
Set the DocumentRoot to /var/www/virtual
Download ftp://server1.example.com/pub/rhce/www.html
Rename the downloaded file to index.html
Place this index.html in the DocumentRoot of the virtual host
Do NOT make any modi_cations to the content of index.html
Ensure that paula is able to create content in /var/www/virtual
Note: The original web site http://stationX.example.com must still be accessable. DNS resolution
for the hostname wwwx.example.com is already provided by the name server on server1.example.com.

Ans: #mkdir /var/www/virtual

#cd /var/www/virtual
#ftp server1.example.com
Login:anonymous
Password:<none>
ftp>cd pub/rhce
ftp>get www.html
ftp>bye
 #mv www.html index.html
#vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

copy last 7 lines and paste

Remove all # symbols of these lines

Changes:
<Virtual Host 192.168.0.12:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/virtual
server Name www12.example.com
ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
</Virtual Host>
:wq

#service httpd restart

Open Mozilla Web Browser
type http://www12.example.com enter

NOTE:PLEASE USE GRAPHICS MODE FOR WRITING RHCE EXAM

BEFORE REBOOTING, PLEASE VERIFY ALL CONFIGURED SERVICES ARE IN ‘START’

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