RedHat EX300 Exam
Red Hat Certified Engineer - RHCE (v6+v7) (Page 8 )

Updated On: 1-Feb-2026

Whoever creates the files/directories on /storage group owner should be automatically should be the same group owner of /storage.

  1. Please refer to explanation for the answer.

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

1. chmod g+s /storage
2. Verify using: ls -ld /storage

Note:
Permission should be like:
drwxrws--- 2 root sysusers 4096 Mar 16 18:08 /storage If SGID bit is set on directory then who every users creates the files on directory group owner automatically the owner of parent directory. To set the SGID bit: chmod g+s directory
To Remove the SGID bit: chmod g-s directory



Make on /storage directory that only the user owner and group owner member can fully access.

  1. Please refer to explanation for the answer.

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

1. chmod 770 /storage
2. Verify using : ls -ld /storage

Note:
Preview should be like: drwxrwx--- 2 root sysusers 4096 Mar 16 18:08 /storage
To change the permission on directory we use the chmod command. According to the question that only the owner user (root) and group member (sysusers) can fully access the directory so: chmod 770 /archive



Create the directory /storage and group owner should be the sysusers group.

  1. Please refer to explanation for the answer.

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

chgrp sysusers /storage
Verify using ls -ld /storage command.

You should get like drwxr-x--- 2 root sysusers 4096 Mar 16 17:59 /storage chgrp command is used to change the group ownership of particular files or directory.
Another way you can use the chown command.
chown root:sysusers /storage



Make Secondary belongs the jeff and marion users on sysusers group. But harold user should not belongs to sysusers group.

  1. Please refer to explanation for the answer.

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

1. usermod -G sysusers jeff
2. usermod -G sysuser marion
3. Verify by reading /etc/group file

Note:
Using usermod command we can make user belongs to different group. There are two types of group one primary and another is secondary. Primary group can be only one but user can belong to more than one group as secondary.
usermod -g groupname username - To change the primary group of the user. usermod -G groupname username - To make user belongs to secondary group.



There are Mail servers, Web Servers, DNS Servers and Log Server. Log Server is already configured. You should configure the mail server, web server and dns server to send the logs to log server.

  1. Please refer to explanation for the answer.

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

According to question, log server is already configured. We have to configure the mail, web and dns server for log redirection. In mail, web and dns server:

1. vi /etc/syslog.conf mail.* @logserveraddress
2. service syslog restart

Mail is the facility and * means the priority. It sends logs of mail services into log server.



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