Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:34:46 -0600 (CST)
   From: MARK JACOBSON <Mark.Jacobson@uni.edu>
     To: Peyton Manning <peyton@uni.edu>
     Cc: jacobson@cns.uni.edu
Subject: Re: Skills and Concepts

On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Peyton Manning wrote:

> Mark,
> This is Peyton from your 021 class.  Just wanted to check in with
> you and make sure I know how to get my webpage started.
> I think you said the password was my UNI ID number.
> What program should i download to access it from home?
> Any other things that i should go over while I'm at home recovering 
> from playing Da Bears in the Super Bowl yesterday?
> Thanks,
> Peyton Manning

Peyton,

     I am not sure WHEN I will assign something that requires you to
do anything with sunny.uni.edu but I will try to tell you about it
briefly here.  NOTHING IS ASSIGNED YET, however, so do not panic.

     Your UNI user id is your sunny.uni.edu user id.  You use it every
     time you read you UNI email and every time you go to
     MyUNIverse to register or pay your U-Bill online.

     Your initial password is your six digit UNI id number.

     Your first login will invoke the passwd program.

     You will immediately, on your first login, have to:

        again type in your six digit UNI id number, then

              type a new password, then
              type the same new password again,

         and if it is accepted, the system tosses you out.

         Presumably, this is to make you immediately login again
         so you will more likely remember your password.
         
         If you ever forget your password, you will have to go in person
         to the CCC (Computer Consulting Center) in the ITTC building.
         (Note:  You can see that from our spring 2007 classroom).

         Your password needs to be complicated enough to not be
         easily guessed.  It has to be more than just letters
         of the alphabet, it is case sensitive A and a are different.
         When you remove the digits or commas and semicolons and
         non alphabetic characters, the remaining letters cannot
         be a word.  Thus "Pan;93thers" would be illegal as a password.
         It must be at least 6 to 8 characters long.

         Login again with your new password, if it was changed.

         Note that for this UNIX system, you do NOT see ******** for
         your password characters.  Your cursor does not move, but
         the password characters are being sent to the server
         sunny.uni.edu that you are trying to login to.

         The sunny.uni.edu prompt is a $ (dollar sign).
         It is called a command prompt.

         Here are some $ commands to try when you get logged in to
         sunny.uni.edu so you get the feel of a multiuser system
         and having a command prompt instead of a mouse and windows.

         who
         finger
         w
         ls
         ls -l
         history

         pico myWebPage.html    <----- To create and/or edit the file
                                       you type pico whateverFileNameIs
                                                ---- ------------------
                   in the world of pico, use control-X, control-O (Oh),
                                             control-K, control-U,
                                             control-C
                   the pico commands are all shown at the bottom of
                            the pico editor screen with ^X meaning
                                                        control-X chord.
         chmod 711 .  <------------ sets permissions for your
                                    site to share web pages thru
                                    the server to whoever types:

                             www.uni.edu/yourUNIuserID/theFileName.html

                        You will NEVER have to do the chmod 711 . command
                        again.  Do it once is enough. -----------

         more myWebPage.html    <----- To look at the file

         control-D is how you logout of sunny.uni.edu and you do the

         control-d at the $ prompt.  I suppose you can think of D as Done.

         control-X is how you eXit the pico editor.
                 -             -
         The software is available at:

            http://www.uni.edu/its/us/software/

    You want to find the Secure Telnet row of the above URL.
    You can use PuTTY or you can use SSH Secure Shell.
                -----                ----------------

    I use SSH Secure Shell, but it says that PuTTY is (Supported),
      which means that the CCC (Computer Consulting Center) will
      be able to help you more with using and/or installing PuTTY
      on your PC at home.

            http://www.uni.edu/its/us/document/www/getstart.htm

            is the URL about making your own web page on the
            sunny.uni.edu web server.

     control-D (control key held down, then press d) is how
                you logout of sunny.uni.edu.
                    ------
     I have never known a UNIX system to not accept the full word
     logout, but sunny.uni.edu does NOT.

     control-C is the break keystroke, if you want to just break
     out of whatever command you were typing and get to the next
     clean $ prompt.

     Mark