If you have access to a system administrator, that person ma y have already set up a user account for you. Otherwise, you will need to do the follo wing to set up a user account so that you can interact with the system as non- root and
3not incur the risk of acciden tally damaging data.
You usually w ork in your home directory or \accoun t", and most of y our default les are k ept there. As \owner" of this directory and its subdirectories, you also have control over access to the les in the accoun t.
Using SAM
To create a user accoun t, you will need to use \SAM", the System Administration Manager.
Caution | In order to use SAM, y ou must be logged in as root (indicated |
| by the command prompt \ #"). The root account is a separate |
| login account providing unlimited permissions on y our system. |
| This means that y ou need to take actions more carefully when |
| you are root. The root account is only used to do system |
| administration tasks, and, for securit y reasons, it should use a |
| password which is dierent from your everyday user passw ord. |
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| details on using SAM. |
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You can navigate around a SAM screen on a c haracter terminal using the arrow keys and 4Tab5 to illuminate the selection y ou want to activate. When the selection is illuminated, press 4Return5 to activate, or \choose" it.
1.Type usr/bin/sam , as root, followed by 4Return5.
2.At the opening menu, choose Users and
Users and
3.At the next screen, choose Users . You will see a screen displa ying a list of logins and real names.
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