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LPI certification 101 exam prep, Part 1
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4. Creating links and removing files
  


Symlinks in-depth, part 5 page 9 of 13


As the root user, you may want to create an alternate name for "keychain", such as "kc". In this example, we have root access, as evidenced by our bash prompt changing to "#". We need root access because normal users aren't able to create files in /usr/bin. As root, we could create an alternate name for keychain as follows:


# cd /usr/bin
# ln -s /usr/bin/keychain kc

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