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True or False: 1. The recovered original content through decrypting is called ci

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Question

True or False:

1. The recovered original content through decrypting is called ciphertext or plaintext.

2. finger command can be used for the following : How can a user find out all information about a specific user such as his default shell, full name, default directory, when and how long has he been using the system.

3. $#  shows the count of the arguments passed to the script.

4.

The below commands can be used create a directory such that anyone in the group can create a file and access any person’s file in it but nobody in the group would be able to delete a file other than the one they created.

mkdir dir1

chmod g+wx dir1

chmod +t dir1

Explanation / Answer

1. The recovered original content through decrypting is called ciphertext or plaintext.

Ans: False. Ciphertext is encrypted text. Plaintext is what you have before encryption, and ciphertext is the encrypted result.

2. True

3. True

4. True