When installing the brake cables on Shimano brakes/shift levers, the inner plastic black housing that comes with the colored pieces on it should be long enough to go almost to the end of the flexible silver cable and attached to the brake lever as the following photo shows.
The rear brake -should be connected to the lever the same way as the front. The difference is the black inner housing should be long enough to go thru the frames cable guide as shown

You will see that the inner housing is connected together from front to back with a clear plastic tube. Done to keep water etc out of the cabling. The rear brake cable pieced together with colored pieces and each end is finished with the small silver ball and then the silver end piece. What I did is figure out where the aluminum would touch the frame, and pulled off a number of colored pieces up to that spot. I then used a bit of spit (it will dry out) to pull the fatter rubber tube over the colored pieces, then I fed the pieces I just pulled off back onto the cable and pushed them into the rubber hose. The end result was the protective rubber piece was positioned to protect the frame as shown.

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