Using your Unity Account for Email and More

This is a screen-by-screen How to Use Unity's online tutorial to learn the system and ELM email. Each full screen is bounded by a ----- line and shows exactly what you will see on your screen. Anything in blue represents a new command entered into existing text lines seeen on screen either by typing your text or selecting via a highlighter bar, space bar and up/down/side arrow keys.

J. Morillo

August 1999

Logging into Unity via any Telnet Program

Telnet defined: (this shows a Windows 95 telnet program screen; yours might say Host/Presenter, but all telnet programs work the same. They connect you to a remote computer via a unique I.P. address (a number like 152.1.1.174 or a name like library.ncsu.edu), and telephone or fiber optic lines.

Connect

Remote System

Connect

Host Name login.ncsu.edu

Port: telnet

Term Type vt100

connect cancel

SunOS 5.6

password: ******* [on first login it is your social security number. always shows as *s]

Be sure to change your password at least once a semester. Choose a password | with a mix of upper and lowercase characters, numbers, or other special | characters. Password changes may not take effect for up to 30 minutes | after requesting the change.

You don't have any mail waiting on cc01mh.unity.ncsu.edu Volume Name Quota Used %Used Partition users.morillo 40000 17099 43% 78%

By accessing this machine, it has been assumed that you have read and agree | | with the dialup usage policy located here: | | http://www.ncsu.edu/policies/cc/dialups.html [Last Updated 8/16/99] | | If you have not read the above policy, please do so immediately.

unity% tutor

The Online TUTORIAL

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NC State Computing Services Welcome to the Unity/Eos Tutor [INLINE]

To find information, use the mouse to move the pointer and then click

once with the left-most mouse button on underlined words or phrases.

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The basics of Unity/Eos workstations

+ Mouse basics: the three buttons

+ Window management: how to use, move and resize windows

+ Navigation: how to find your way around with your browser

+ Changing your password and logging out

+ Organizing and working with unix files: the basics

+ Quitting: how to quit this tutorial and logout

+ Final suggestions for beginners

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NC State Computing Services Changing your Password [INLINE]

Changing your password

Your password is your key to getting into your account, and also your

best defense against others who wish to get into it. Because your

initial password (your university ID) is seen by many, change your

password as soon as you get your account!

WHY change your password? Because anyone with access to your account

can erase your work, use up all your print quota, or send mail to

thousands of people with your name and e-mail address attached to it.

Odds are the person isn't there to do your homework for you.

It is your responsibility to keep your password a secret. Change your

password at least twice a semester, or any time someone may have seen

you typing it.

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Your password should be something you can easily remember because you

should NEVER write your password down. It should also be non-obvious;

don't use your name, your dog's name, or anything easily connected

with you (like your initials or your name backwards). It's a good idea

to use numbers and a mixture of upper and lowercase letters somewhere

in the password to make it difficult to guess. Also, passwords are

case sensitive, which means "NIXON," "nixon," and "NIxon" are

different passwords.

To change your password:

Type passwd at the prompt (unity% or eos%) and press [Enter].
When asked, enter your current password (the one you just used to

3. When asked, enter your new password and press [Enter]. Note that

just as when logging in, you can't see your password as you're

typing it.

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4. You'll be asked a second time to enter your password (this is so

the system can be sure you entered it correctly). Enter your new

password just as you did the first time and press [Enter].

5. If you see the message "Password changed," you were succesful. If

you do not, try changing your password again, carefully following

the steps above.

Please note that it may take up to one hour for the new password to

become effective. If you log in again during that time, and your new

password does not work, try your old one.

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+ AFS Beginners Guide (from NIH Advanced Laboratory Workstation

Project)

+ AFS FAQ (from Ohio State University)

E-Mail programs

+ Z-Mail Lite or Elm for those who need a text-based mailer

+ Z-Mail for those who can use an X Windows mailer

Text editors

+ NEdit a basic text editor for X Windows

+ Pico a line-mode text editor

Word Processors

+ WordPerfect 6.0

Policies governing your account -- know them.

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NC State Computing Services Using Elm [INLINE]

Elm is an easy-to-use electronic mail program you can use whether

you're dialing in from home or using a unix workstation. This tutorial

isn't intended to teach you everything about Elm, but enough

information to get you started. You should probably start reading the

instructions at the top of the list and work your way down.

Things to know...

About electronic mail, context, and etiquette
Understanding e-mail addresses
Starting Elm

Sending and receiving mail

Sending a message
Reading a message
Replying to a message

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More commands and system information

+ Directories: home, root, and paths

+ Entering commands: basics, shortcuts and more

+ Most-used unix commands

+ Getting help

Unity/Eos printing

+ Security options for your files and directories

+ Communicating with other users

+ Customizing your account

+ Directing input and output

+ Decompression and decoding

+ Logging out from different connections

+ Index to Unity/Eos commands

More about Andrew File System (the distributed file system used by

Unity/Eos)

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NC State Computing Services The ins and outs of Eos/Unity printing [INLINE]

Printers are not connected directly to each workstation. Instead,

printing is a remote network service; you can print to any one of

about 25 printers. When you are working in Sullivan, you should direct

your printing jobs to the printer located in that facility. The

Sullivan printer prints plain text and PostScript files.

Purchasing print quota
Sending a job to the printer (lpr)
Seeing the list of print jobs (lpq)
Cancelling one of your print jobs (lprm)
Using the NX Print Manager
Advice for conserving your print quota
Other printing commands

Go back to the tutor page. [INLINE] [NC State Home] [Computing

Resources] --> [Computing Services] [Help]

Starting Elm, the email program

unity% elm (if you make an error you must hit del not backspace to erase)

Mailbox is '~/.elm/inbox' with 4 messages [ELM 2.4 PL24/POP]

1 Aug 22 Carl Stahmer (76) Re: can you contact Carl? (fwd)

2 Aug 22 NUGSAMA@ug-study.u (35) question

3 Aug 22 Automatic digest p (575) C18-L Digest - 20 Aug 1997 to 21 Aug

4 Aug 21 sonnyv@webspawner. (53) Free Web Pages

You can use any of the following commands by pressing the first character;

d)elete or u)ndelete mail, m)ail a message, r)eply or f)orward mail, i)nc, q)uit

To read a message, press <return>. j = move down, k = move up, ? = help

Changing Mail Folders, Reading Messages

Command: c

Command: Change folder (Use '?' for help)

Change to which folder: =*

Folders which match `*':

aliases aliases.pag context received

aliases.dir aliases.text elmrc

Folders:

18cnovel herps kayman new

ecentlife jferster kewhea received

Change to which folder: =received

Move read messages to "received" folder? (y/n) n

Folder is '=received' with 5 messages [ELM 2.4 PL24/POP]

1 Aug 5 ow5 (65) Re: Re: PRAXIS

2 Aug 5 Steven E. Jones (59) Re: PRAXIS

3 Aug 5 ow5 (39) Re: PRAXIS

4 Aug 5 Steven E. Jones (36) PRAXIS

5 Aug 5 ELIZABETH FAY (40) Praxis

You can use any of the following commands by pressing the first character;

d)elete or u)ndelete mail, m)ail a message, r)eply or f)orward mail, i)nc, q)uit

To read a message, press <return>. j = move down, k = move up, ? = help

Command: (move black bar highlighter to message chosen) [enter, I chose #5]

Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 07:36:37 EDT

To: MORILLO@UNITY.NCSU.EDU

CC: efay@umbsky.cc.umb.edu

Subject: Praxis

Dear John--in your message to all the Praxis volume editors (July 11th

message), you mention that you've been working on a template for essay

layout. I'm not sure I can take on all that work for my volume, but it

may not be as bad as I think. Before I shirk everything off on you, can

you send me the template files so I can see how easy/hard it will be?

Also, in order to give my contributors enough time for their essays, I

gave them a due date of the end of Oct/beginning of Nov. But I promised

Orrin that the volume would be put together by mid-Nov. When I see

everything else I have to do in early Nov. (and given people's inability

to meet deadlines), I may well have to ask you for help even if it looks

initially like I could do everything myself. I just wanted you to be

prepared for my worst case scenario.

?% - SPACE to continue, 'h' for help, 'q' to quit [hit space bar]