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Creating a New User Account
Using HP VUE
If you have access to a system administrator, that p erson ma
yhave already set
up a user accoun
t for you. If you are doing your own system administration,
you will need to do the follo
wing to set up a user accoun
t.
The home directory or \accoun
t" in whichyou work is where you log in at
every new session and where most of y
our default les are found. As \o
wner"
of this directory and its subdirectory
,you also have control over who can access
any of its les.
If you have not already created a user account, do the following steps to create
one:
1. Log into HP VUE as
root
.(You will need the
root
password).
2. Click on the up arrow (the small triangle) o
ver the To olb ox control icon at
the right side of the FrontPanel. A slide-up menu (\subpanel") app ears.
3.
Cho ose the
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General
icon on the To ols subpanel. You will see a window
which lists applications in the General To olb ox. Select the
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System_Admin
folder.
4. The System Administration window app ears. Cho ose
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Sam
.
Caution
In order to use SAM, you must b e logged in as
root
. The
root
account is a separate login account providing unlimited
permissions on your system. This means that you need to
take actions more carefully when you are
root
. The
root
account is only used to do system administration tasks, and, for
security reasons, it should use a password which is dierent
from your everyday user password.
Using HP-UX
and
System
Administration Tasks
giveyou more details on using SAM.
5. At the op ening menu, choose
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Users and Groups->
by clicking on it and
then clicking on
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Open
(or just double-click on the item).
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