CS Accounts

Due Date

Wednesday, September 7, 2007.

Objective

• To be able to login to your new CS accounts.

Overview (why so many accounts?)

In Intro to IT this year you will learn a lot about the web and how to use the web to both find and store information. You will also learn to use the Unix operating system (GNU/Linux variety). To do all this you will need at least three accounts:

1. Edubuntu Server account
2. Unix shell account on maddog.
3. CanDo account on http://cando.apsweb.org

The purpose of each of these accounts will be clear to you within the next few weeks. What is important now is that you learn your username and choose a password for each account. Keeping them the same will make your life easier.

Proceedure

1. Take out a notebook that you will use for bits of important information about this class (your new student planner would be ideal).
2. Write down your first initial in lower case, followed by the first 7 characters of your last name, also in lower case.
3. Lable this username.
4. Choose a password with the following characteristics:
   • A minimum of 8 characters in length.
   • Contains at least one digit and one punctuation mark.
   • Does not contain any spaces.
5. Label this password.
6. Now you are ready to login to the Edubuntu server:
   • Your login should be the same as the login you wrote down in your notebook.
   • Your password is temporarily: student (we will change this next).
   • Click on Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal in the upper left corner of your screen.
   • At the command prompt ($), type: passwd and press the Enter key.
   • Type in your current password, and then your new password twice.
   • Log out and try to login again using your new password.
7. Once you have your Edubuntu account setup, you are ready to setup your web account on maddog:
   • At the command prompt type: ssh maddog.yhspatriot.net
   • Enter your password(which for this account is temporarily your birthday in the following format: yy/mm/dd).
   • Again, change your password.
8. Your last account (at least for now ;-) is your CanDo account:
   • Click on the CanDo link under the Links section on the right hand side of our CS website (http://linus.yhspatriot.net/cs). This will take you to the CanDo site: http://cando.yhspatriot.net
   • Click the Login link in the upper right hand section of the screen. This will open an authentication dialog screen. Enter your Username (same as before) and Password(which is temporarily student). Your password on this system has been set temporarily to your Student ID number.
   • Change your password.

Evaluation

• 6650-054 Demonstrate connection of client to server by connection logon
• 6650-018 Describe the connection of a client to a server by authentication process (logging in)

Happy Hacking!
- jeff elkner