Creating a New User Account

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 di￿erent from your everyday user passw ord.

 

Using HP-UX and System Administration Tasks give you more

 

details on using SAM.

 

 

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 Groups->pressing 4Return5 with

Users and Groups-> illuminated.

3.At the next screen, choose Users . You will see a screen displa ying a list of logins and real names.

3-8 Logging In and Getting Started

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