3X0-104 Linux Security, Privacy & Ethics (Level 1) Practice Tests

Demo Question 4.

After receiving an urgent request to make the files in the /download directory available to clients, an administrator enters the sequence of commands below. Which of the following security risks did the administrator create by doing this? useradd ftp mkdir /home/ftp cp /downloads /home/ftp

A. FTP users will not have to provide a password. This prevents the administrator from tracking who made the request.
B. The FTP user will belong to the default group (users) on the system, granting FTP users access to those directories and files that the default group can access.
C. The FTP user is given the permissions of the files contained in the downloads directory. This presents a security problem if one of those files was owned by root.
D. An FTP user is given read, write and execute permissions to all subdirectories in the /home directory.
E. The administrator did not set the permissions of the FTP user to 755, thereby allowing FTP users to view the files of other users.


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Answer: B

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