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| ===== Creating a new account ===== | ===== Creating a new account ===== | ||
| - | * login with the //root// account | + | * login with the //root// account or an existing account |
| * change the system and root account language to English, if it's not already the case: | * change the system and root account language to English, if it's not already the case: | ||
| * Menu => Administration => Langue => English (USA) | * Menu => Administration => Langue => English (USA) | ||
| * Menu => Préférences => Langues => English, United States | * Menu => Préférences => Langues => English, United States | ||
| * **reboot** | * **reboot** | ||
| - | * create the new account:\\ Menu => Administration => Users and Groups (the **second** one!) | + | * create the new account:\\ Menu => Administration => Users and Groups (the **second** one if you are using the Cinnamon window manager!). The system will ask you for your password or the root password, if you are not using the root account |
| - | * Add User: Warning, make sure the home directory will be created in ''/homel'' and not the default ''/home'' | + | * Add User: |
| + | * Warning, make sure the user's home directory will be created in ''/homel'' and not the default ''/home''! | ||
| + | * Choose ''/bin/tcsh'' instead of the default ''bash'' if that's the users's shell | ||
| + | * Unselect //Create a private group for the user// | ||
| + | * If the user has a LSCE account, you can specify the LSCE used ID in //Specify user ID manually// (type ''id user_login'' on an LSCE server and check the value of //uid//) | ||
| + | * Once the account is created, add it to the //vboxsf// group, if the account will need to [[other:vb:use#using_shared_folders|use shared folders on the host]] | ||
| * add the new //johndoe// account to the people who can use the ''sudo'' command:\\ ''echo -e 'johndoe\tALL=(ALL)\tALL' > /etc/sudoers.d/johndoe'' | * add the new //johndoe// account to the people who can use the ''sudo'' command:\\ ''echo -e 'johndoe\tALL=(ALL)\tALL' > /etc/sudoers.d/johndoe'' | ||
| + | * Logout from the account used to create the new account, login with the new account, and get some basic configuration files: **.cshrc**, **.login** and **.emacs** | ||
| ===== Installing new programs with yum ===== | ===== Installing new programs with yum ===== | ||
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| * At LSCE: ''yum install nco'' | * At LSCE: ''yum install nco'' | ||
| * Outside LSCE: ''yum --disablerepo lsce install nco'' | * Outside LSCE: ''yum --disablerepo lsce install nco'' | ||
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| + | ==== vim/gvim ==== | ||
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| + | //vim-X11.x86_64 : The VIM version of the vi editor for the X Window System | ||
| + | // | ||
| + | * At LSCE: ''yum install vim-X11'' | ||
| + | * Outside LSCE: ''yum --disablerepo lsce install vim-X11'' | ||
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| ===== Installing programs with the Graphical User Interface ===== | ===== Installing programs with the Graphical User Interface ===== | ||
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| + | FIXME | ||
| ===== Installing other useful (for LSCE) programs ===== | ===== Installing other useful (for LSCE) programs ===== | ||
other/vb/linuxguest.1431936595.txt.gz · Last modified: 2015/05/18 08:09 by jypeter
