Steps in Setting Up Your Unix Account

This work cand be done in T-488. You have a Unix account on the server in the Computing Sciences Department. The computers in the T-488 lab are on a network running Windows XP. They can be used to access the Unix resources of the department. Your Username and Password are the same for both your Windows XP account and for your Unix account. Your username and Password are on the e-mail which you were sent. Keep them with you until your accounts are completely setup. If you lose them without having EXACTLY memorized their contents you may have to redo your work. Your password is cryptic and you may want to change it to something that is easier to remember. I recommend the first letters of a sentence that you can remember with capitalization strewn about in a logical manner. For example, you can easily remember dsitbpadU by just remembering "dr sidbury is the best professor at da U". I recommend that if you change the password on one of your accounts that you change it on both of them.
  1. Log on to a machine in the lab using the password that you have on your sheet. You are now logged into your account on the Windows 2000 network.note that if you would like to change your password you should probably change it on both your accounts. To change your password on your windows 2000 account press Ctrl-Alt-Del and a window will appear with one of its options to change your password.
  2. Log on to the Unix network by double clicking the puTTY icon on the desktop and selecting server2 as the system to log on to. When you have logged on to that system (using the original Username and Password on your sheet) you can change the password there by running the passwd command. Note that when you type your password when logging on to Windows it is replaced by *'s but when logging on to unix it is blank. However the machine is accepting your data.
  3. Now that you are on the Unix system, you may need to create a directory for your web stuff called public_html. To see if you already have such a directory type cd pu* followed by enter; then type pwd and see what the result is. If you are NOT in public_html then create the directory by typing the command mkdir public_html and pressing enter. Note that unix commands are case-sensitive. Once you have created this directory you can store all your course material in this directory. You may want to create an additional directory to store your final project in and perhaps other directories to store style sheets, images, style sheets, etc in. This is probably not necessary since the number of files that you will create during the semester will probably be no more than 100 or so.
  4. To look at the contents of that directory you may type ls public_html to see a listing of the contents or you may "go to" that directory with cd public_html and then simply type ls. To go back to your root area just type cd ..
  5. When you are finished working in the Unix account you may log out of the unix system by typing ctrl-D that is by holding down the ctrl key as if it were a shift key and then pressing d