WYNTK: UNIX System Admininistrator

The computer checks your login name and password.

Once you have a login prompt, you can type in your login name and your password. The computer lets you log in under that name only if you give the correct password for that login account.

The login name you have been assigned on your system might follow any number of naming conventions. At some sites, you can request a specific login name (if no one else already uses it). At other sites, you’re stuck with what they give you. It might be your first name. It might be your last name. It might be your initials. It might be your first name with your last initial, your first initial with your last name, or it might be your nickname. Some larger sites have other conventions, such as your initials with a three-digit number after it.

What do you do when you can’t log in?

	When I have trouble logging in, I first look to see if it’s anything that I’ve done. Then I double-check hardware. And then I wander out to see if other people are having the problem. If those checks fail, I ask for help.
	--Joan Callahan

Your password is initially set by your system administrator. When you first get your account, your system administrator should tell you your login name and password. (The administrator will also ask you to change your password as soon as possible.)

If you don’t know your login name or password, you’ll have to ask your system administrator.

Remember that UNIX is case-sensitive, meaning that lowercase letters are considered distinct from their ...