9.7. Quiz

The following certification assessment question helps verify your understanding of the topics discussed in this chapter.

1: The system administrator would like to log messages related to user login failures to a file. How could this be accomplished?
  1. Issue the command: alog -f /etc/security/failedlogin -q

  2. Modify the /etc/security/login to add an auth_method for logging.

  3. Add a line to the /etc/syslog.conf file to capture this information.

  4. Set log=true in the default stanza in the /etc/security/user file.

The following are additional questions created by the authors to further test your understanding of the topics.

1: A system administrator would like to collect a log file of su activity on all hosts across a network. The central logfile ...

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