General information about accounts:

You are responsible for these accounts and should not give access to these accounts to anyone else. If you notice any irregularities in your account, please report them to your instructor as soon as possible. You are only to use these accounts for class-related work. If you misuse the accounts, you may be subject to disciplinary action and may lose access to the facilities (and hence fail the course).

Logging in for the first time:

• Step 1:    Setting your XP password for the first time
• Sit down at one of XP machines on the third floor of SB.
• Press ctrl-alt-del to get the login prompt.
• Be sure that the Domain is CSNET.
• Enter your User Name.  The account login usually is the user's first name initial <1 letter> and first 7 letters  of the last   name, up to 8 total characters, unless there is a collision with an existing user.  In case of a collision the user name will be up to 7 letters of the first name and the first letter of last name.  New users' names as well as their logins will be posted in the labs.
• Enter your Password. Your initial password is the last 8 digits of your student ID number.  (Some of the numbers begin with an @ symbol and some will have a leading 0. Omit this.
(DO NOT ENTER ALL NINE DIGITS)
• Press OK after entering both your login name and your password.
• Step 2:    Changing your password later:
• Upon the first login to the CSNET account, the new user will be
prompted to change his/her password.
Otherwise, Press ctrl-alt-del to get the login window and Click Change Password.
• Select a new password using the following rules.  Your password WILL NOT work, if you fail to follow the guidelines listed below.
• Your new Password MUST be 4-8 Characters long
• Password must contain  at  least  two  alphabetic
    characters and at least one numeric or special character.
•  Password must differ from the user's  login  name
• If you had an account last year, you should select a different password.  New passwords must differ from the  old  by  at  least three  characters.
• Step 3:    Setting your Unix password to agree with your XP password:

Your XP and Unix accounts will be sharing directories so that you have access to your files on either account. We recommend that you keep the same password on both systems so that you can access your files without entering your passwords during your session. To set your Unix password, you will need to log in to your Unix account by running the secure shell:
• Double click on the secure shell icon on your desktop (ssh ).
• Connect to pandora.cs.utsa.edu.
• Enter your login name (same as above)
• Enter your password. If you are a new user, your password is the last 8 digits of your Student ID number. If you previously had this account, it is your password from before.
• When you have logged in, type:

    passwd

You will be prompted for your old Unix password (the one you used above to log in to pandora). You will then be asked for your new password. Type the password you gave as your new XP password.
• Step 4:  Logging out of your Unix account
• To log out of your Unix account, type:

    logout

You will be asked if you want to terminate the connection. Click OK and close the window. (You can click on the X in the upper right corner of the menu.)

Logging out of your XP account:

Your account structure from Unix:

• If you log in to your Unix account (by using ssh to a Department of Computer Science Unix machine such as pandora ) you will have two directories under your home directory: a working directory and a public_html directory:
• The working directory where you should be putting your private files including your course work.
• The public_html directory is where you store your web page. If your account name is jdoe your web page is accessible as http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~jdoe.
• Execute ls -l to see your files in Unix and to view their access rights. You should have a working directory that is accessible only by you (drwx--x--x).  Type chmod 0711 working to correct the permissions if necessary.  Your public_html directory should be readable and executable by everyone( drwxr-xr-x ). Execute chmod 0755 public_html to correct the permissions if necessary.
• The current directory in Unix is similar to the open directory in XP:
• The ls -l command displays information about the files in the current directory.
• The cd xxxx command changes the current directory to xxxx. (Note: xxxx must be in the current directory.)
• The command cd .. changes from the current directory to the one above.
• Example: If you change to public_html directory, you should see an index.htm file. This is your default web page. You change to a directory with the cd command. For example, cd public_html changes to the public_html directory, provided it is in the current directory.

Your account structure from XP:

• From your XP account, your home directory is on the Z: drive. For example, if your user name is jdoe, then your web page is located in Z:\jdoe\public_html and your working directory is on Z:\jdoe\working.
• You can use Explore to look at file structure. Right click on the START menu and select Explore. Go to the Z: drive.

If you already had an account:

• You should have a public_html directory with your web page from the past. If you don't have this directory, log in to your Unix account and in a ssh window, execute:

     mkdir public_html
     chmod 755 public_html

to create a public_html directory and correctly set its protections.
• If you don't have a working directory under your home directory, execute the following:

         mkdir working
         chmod 711 working

Reading and sending mail:

Forwarding your email to another account:

    pico .forward

Problems with accounts 

• Talk with one of the tutors in the lab.