COMSATS University Islamabad Campus

Department of Computer Science

FALL 2021

Operating Systems (CSC322)

BSSE-4 (A,B)
Lab Assignment No.1
Note: This assignment measures the CLO1
(CLO1: Explain the working and functions of modern operating systems and the OS structures)

Assignment Description:
As Linux is a multi-user working framework, there is a serious need of an administrator, who can oversee user
accounts, their privileges, and the general framework security. The objective of this assignment is to
investigate the Linux commands used to deal with the users. You have to learn the following concepts and
related commands; and submit a report containing the description of these concepts. Also include the
screenshots showing the execution of commands (Please add a user with the same name as of yours and
execute the commands with this user).
1. User configuration files in Linux
2. Managing user environment
3. Adding and removing users (useradd, adduser, usermod, userdel)
4. Managing groups (grouadd, groupmod, groupdel)
5. Managing disk quotas
6. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
7. Pluggable Authentication Modules
8. PAM Configuration Files
9. PAM Modules

Deadline: 29-10-2020