Custom Apache User Setup
Is time for another Kodkloud exercise/project 🤓😎
Scenario
In response to heightened security concerns, the xFusionCorp Industries security team has opted for custom Apache users for their web applications. Each user is tailored specifically for an application, enhancing security measures. Your task is to create a custom Apache user according to the outlined specifications:
a. Create a user named john on App server 3 within the Stratos Datacenter.
b. Assign a unique UID 1886 and designate the home directory as /var/www/john.
In previous article, I discussed what Linux is, but if this happen to be your first time reading my article, I got you. I will briefly explain what Linux is, its history and what it is use for.
Linux is a computer operating system much more like iOS and Windows. It can be used on laptops, large computer centers, and on cell phones. Linux was created in the early 1990s by Finnish- American software engineer Linus Benedict Torvalds.
All right let’s get started!
First thing that I will do is to click on “Details of all Users and Servers” to find the credentials for server 3
Now that I have the credentials, I can now login into the server by running this command
ssh your_username@host_ip_address
in this case it will be ssh banner@stapp03
sudo su-
I will check if I have a user john by running this command
id john
And as you can see, no such user exist
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I will now run this command to create the user name john
useradd -u 1886 john
Then I will run the following these twocommand to verify that user john was added
cat /etc/passwd |grep john
id -john
Now I will run this command to assign a unique UID 1886 and also designate the home directory as /var/www/john
usermod -d /var/www/john -m john
I will run cat /etc/passwd |grep john
Ok now everything looks good, I will now check my work to see if I got it right
Another successful exercise from Kodekloud. Thanks to all you guys that took the time to check out my article. See you guys on the next one.
