How many users are on the local system

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1. Is each of the following an absolute pathname, a relative pathname, or a simple filename?

a. milk_co

b. correspond/business/milk_co

c. /home/max

d. /home/max/literature/promo

e. ..

f. letter.0210

2. List the commands you can use to perform these operations:

a. Make your home directory the working directory

b. Identify the working directory

3. If the working directory is /home/max with a subdirectory named literature, give three sets of commands you can use to create a subdirectory named classics under literature. Also give several sets of commands you can use to remove the classics directory and its contents.

4. You should have read permission for the /etc/passwd file. To answer the following questions, use cat or less to display /etc/passwd. Look at the fields of information in /etc/passwd for the users on the local system.

a. Which character is used to separate fields in /etc/passwd?

b. How many fields are used to describe each user?

c. How many users are on the local system?

d. How many different login shells are in use on your system? (Hint: Look at the last field.)

e. The second field of /etc/passwd stores user passwords in encoded form. If the password field contains an x, your system uses shadow passwords and stores the encoded passwords elsewhere. Does your system use shadow passwords?

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