Exam of Linux Basics 13 - autumn 2010

Welcome to Foobar Ltd! Foobar is a leading small web company in Kälkyä. It provides turn-key web solutions to medium sized enterprises. You will be responsible for Foobar’s systems.

Forbidden: Two-way communication, any items not specifically allowed, speaking without permission, looking others monitors

Allowed: Browsing public web, using search engines

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Your company has 7 employees: Maija Mehilänen, Pekka Hurme, Muhamad Muhamad, Håkan Petersson, Jim Jones, Einari Vähäkäähkä, CEO Eija Väntäri.

Create a sample homepage for each of them on your local web server

Leave all homepages open on tabs after the exam.

Foobar Ltd develops software that has a web interface. Make PHP available on user homepages.

ps. You might need to modify /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php5.conf.

All users want to access the computer remotely from various countries. Make it possible for users to access the system remotely. Write brief instructions how users can remotely login to this system (command line) and transfer files (command line or gui). Users are using a Linux system on their own computers. Do tests on your computer that show these services working.

After the exam, leave on your screen the instructions for remote access. Also leave on screen examples of remote file transfer and remote command line working. Have each users homepage visible from a (lab) public IP. Have SSH connections open or file transfer shown on the screen. Have your name and student number visible. Check that screen does not lock.