The Linux guest is just a regular Linux machine! We have detailed below only a few technical details

Depending on what you need to do:

• run a single command with the root access rights
  sudo command
• become root in a terminal
  sudo su -
• use the root password when a program asks for it. Be sure the programs has legitimate reasons to ask for the root password!
• login as root

• login with the root account
• change the system and root account language to English, if it's not already the case:
  • Menu ⇒ Administration ⇒ Langue ⇒ English (USA)
  • Menu ⇒ Préférences ⇒ Langues ⇒ English, United States
  • reboot
• create the new account:
  Menu ⇒ Administration ⇒ Users and Groups (the second one!)
  • Add User: Warning, make sure the home directory will be created in /homel and not the default /home
• add the new johndoe account to the people who can use the sudo command:
  echo -e 'johndoe\tALL=(ALL)\tALL' > /etc/sudoers.d/johndoe

Note: you have to be root to install a program on the command line with yum!

nco web site: http://nco.sf.net

• At LSCE: yum install nco
• Outside LSCE: yum –disablerepo lsce install nco

Web site: https://code.zmaw.de/projects/cdo

This is detailed in… the Update section

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