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RHCSA LAB TEST

Important Notes
• Collect the answers before Friday, May 20th 2022 at 13.00 WIB
• The answer is a screenshot that displays the results of the configuration that has been
done, either in the command or contents of the configuration file
• Each screenshot must display the date and time (WIB)
• File format using .docx or .pdf
• File naming format:
Name - Agency
Example:
Feryansa - PT Inovasi Informatika Indonesia.docx
Feryansa - PT Inovasi Informatika Indonesia.pdf
• Submit to the provided Google Form (https://bit.ly/39ggcdY)
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Configure Default Repositories

Configure the servera to use http://server.lab.test.com/BaseOS and
http://server.lab.test.com/AppStream as default YUM repositories.

Create User Accounts

In servera, create the following users, groups, and group memberships:
• A group named production
• A user brian who belongs to production as a secondary group
• A user joji who also belongs to production as a secondary group
• A user niki who does not have access to an interactive shell on the system, and who
is not a member of production
• brian, joji, and niki should all have the password 88rising

Configure a Cron Job

In servera, configure a cron job that runs every 7 minutes and executes logger “LAB TEST
in progress” as the user joji. (Must be done Create User Accounts first)

Create a Collaborative Directory

In servera, create a collaborative directory /home/project with the following
characteristics: (Must be done Create User Accounts first)
• Group ownership of /home/project is production
• The directory should be readable, writable, and accessible to members of production,
but not to any other user
• File created in /home/project automatically have group ownership set to the
production group
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Configure NTP
In servera, configure the system so that it is an NTP client of utility.lab.test.com.

Configure ACL Permissions

In servera, copy the file /etc/fstab to /home/project/fstab, and configure the
permissions of /home/project/fstab so that:
• The file is owned by the root user
• The file belongs to the group root
• The file should not be executable by anyone
• The user brian is able to read and write this file
• The user joji can neither write nor read this file
• All other users (current or future) have the ability to read this file

Configure a User Account

In servera, create a user poetri with a userid of 2000 and have 88rising as a password.

Locate Files
In servera, locate all the files owned by student and place a copy of them in the
/home/project/findfiles directory.

Find a String
In servera, find all lines in the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config that contain the string ssh.
Put a copy of all these lines in the original order in the file /home/project/sshlines.
/home/project/sshlines should contain no empty lines and all lines must be exact copies
of the original lines in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.
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Debug SELinux
Change the SELinux context type in the /home/project and everything in this directory to
httpd_sys_content_t persistently. (Must be done Create a Collaborative Directory,
Configure a User Account, Locate Files, and Find a String first)

Create an Archive
In servera, create a tar archive named /root/archive.bz2 which contains the content of
/home/project. The tar archive must be compressed using bzip2. (Must be done Create a
Collaborative Directory, Configure a User Account, Locate Files, Find a String, and
Debug SELinux first)

Set the Root Password

Run lab boot-resetting start at the workstation and set the root password for
servera to 88rising using the boot processes.

Create a Logical Volume

In servera, create a new logical volume according to the following requirements:
• The logical volume is named music and belongs to the development volume group
and has a size of 400MiB.
• The development volume group should have 2 partitions, each partition has a size
500MiB.
• Format the new logical volume with an ext4 filesystem, and should be automatically
mounted under /song/progress at system boot time

Add a Swap Partition

In servera, add an additional swap partition of 1GiB to the system, and should automatically
mount when the system boot. Note: Don’t remove any existing swap partitions on the system.
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Create a VDO Volume

In servera, create a new VDO volume according to the following requirements:
• Use the unpartitioned disk
• The volume is named vdopart
• The volume has a logical size of 35G
• The volume is formatted with the xfs filesystem
• The volume is mounted under /vdodir at boot time

Resize a Logical Volume

In servera, resize the logical volume music and its filesystem to 700MiB and make sure that
the filesystem contents remain intact. (Must be done Create a Logical Volume first)

Configure System Tuning

Choose the balanced tuned profile for the servera and set it as the default.

Configure Autofs
Run lab netstorage-review start at the workstation and configure an automounter
indirect map on servera using shares from serverb. Create an indirect map using files
named /etc/auto.master.d/shares.autofs for the master map and
/etc/auto.shares for the mapping file. Use the /remote directory as the main mount
point on servera. Reboot servera to determine if the autofs service starts automatically.
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Running Containers
Run lab lab containers-review start at the workstation. And on serverb, as
the podsvc user, create a detached MariaDB container named inventorydb. To query
registry.lab.example.com, use the admin account with redhat321 for the password.
Use the rhel8/mariadb-103 image from registry.lab.example.com, specifying the
tag with the lowest version number on that image. Map port 3306 in the container to port
13306 on the host. Mount the /home/podsvc/db_data directory on the host
as /var/lib/mysql/data in the container. Declare the following variable values:

Variable Value

MYSQL_USER operator1

MYSQL_PASSWORD redhat

MYSQL_DATABASE inventory

MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD redhat

Also configure systemd so that the inventorydb container starts automatically with the
server.

Configure Network Settings

Configure servera to have the following network configuration:
• Hostname: servera.lab.test.com
• IP address: 172.24.4.10
• Netmask: 255.255.255.0
• Gateway: 172.24.4.254
• Name server: 172.24.4.254

Note: All the configuration must be done first before running this task, because this task will
make the system disconnected from all system.