Logging In

Before you can log into any of the systems you must have an "account". UCI students who are currently enrolled are eligible for a free Unix account. Bring your student id to the on-duty consultant in Lab B, 1140 Engineering Gateway Building between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. You may call 824-6116 for more information. Please note that University Extension students must contact the University Extension Office to request a computer account.

Computer labs are available for use by UCI affiliates - for example, faculty, staff, students. The labs are located in 1140 Engineering Gateway Building, and are open 24 hours a day, with the exception of Tuesday mornings from midnight to 2 a.m. when the labs are closed for cleaning.

If you are using a terminal, turn it on and press the [RETURN] key a couple of times. You should get a prompt that looks like:

You are connected to CSI-TS3, a UCInet terminal server csi-ts3> The terminal server will let you connect to any system connected to the UCInet, the campus computer network. You can connect to a system by typing the name of the system. For example, if you wish to connect to ea, you would type "ea" followed by [RETURN].

The Unix system will print a login message at your terminal. If this message appears as garbage (or does not appear at all), press [RETURN] a few times, pausing each time, until the login message

SunOS UNIX (rigel.oac.uci.edu) login: appears clearly, then type in your login name in lower case. (If you type your login name with upper case letters, Unix assumes your terminal cannot generate lower case letters and will translate all subsequent upper case letters to lower case. You do not want this to happen!) After entering your login name, you will be asked for your password: Password: Your password will not be echoed on the terminal as you type it.

If you have entered either your login name or your password incorrectly, a

login incorrect message will appear on your terminal, and you will have to repeat the login/password sequence.

When you have entered both your login name and password correctly, you will see a message giving the time of your last login and will then be asked to specify the type of terminal you are using:

TERM = (vt100) If you are using a VT100 terminal, simply press the [RETURN] key. If you don't know what type of terminal you are using, ask a consultant. Here's a table listing some other common terminal types and what you should type: Table: Common Terminal Types Your terminal type What to enter at TERM = prompt -------------------------------------------------------------- Wyse wyse75 Sun sun Zenith Z-19 or Heath H-19 z19 DECwriter dw Visual 500 vi500 C. Itoh 80 cit80 DEC VT52 vt52 DEC VT100 vt100 Datamedia dm1520 Qume vt100 xterm window xterms If you enter the wrong terminal type, or forget to specify the terminal type, use the command "ttyset".

The culmination of your login efforts is a "prompt character", a sign that indicates that the system is ready to accept commands from you. The prompt character is the percent sign, %, unless you've customized it.

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