4.1 Set up your VAX account

To protect the resource a hard-to-guess password needs to be set. Your initial password is easy. You need to chose a better one. The only things that keep about 50,000,000 people from using your account on the Internet is your username and password. People often give out (for good reason) their username. So really the only protection is your password. Choose a "good" one.

1. Accessing the system.
   There are many ways to access the system WEST.
   • You can use a PC in the lab to telnet into the computer system. Some systems have a menu set up. On other systems you may need to select a telnet program.
   • You can dial-in to 206-6060 & 206-6613 to get to a terminal server. I recommend that if you call in from home use a terminal emulator that does a good VT-320 terminal emulation. kermit v3.14 does this quite well. Kermit .ini files that work well with VAX (and UNIX) systems are available using ftp from red.cscwc.pima.edu.
   • You can telnet into the college from an external system connected to the Internet or through your own Internet service provider. Most web browsers let you make a telnet connection. This is a telnet link to WEST
2. Connection through a terminal server
   If you are connecting to WEST using a direct serial connection (not a PPP connection) you will be going through a terminal server. You will need to instruct the terminal server to make a logical connection over the Pima Community College's LAN (Local Area Network). To do this first get the terminal servers attention:

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   Then you need to tell the terminal server which system to "connect to". You want to connect to system WEST. To do this use the "connect" or "c" command.

    
   Local> c WEST 
   

   or

    
   CSC use ONLY> c WEST 
   

3. Logging on to WEST
   You will need to tell the system who you are and then authenticate who you are. This process is called "login on" or "logging in". To do this you will need your username and your initial password. Your username is 135t_last-name up to seven characters for a maximum total of twelve characters with no spaces, and your initial password is your student services number -- no hyphens. If you have a "long" username, use only 12 characters total.

   Enter your username and password when prompted:

   USERNAME: Your-username
   PASSWORD: Your-password 
   

   If you get a "USER authorization failure" or any other error and do not get the dollar sign ($) system prompt, you did not get logged in. Just try again. If you cannot get in after a few tries (about three), check with me, Louis Taber to make sure you have the correct username and password.
4. Change your password.
   You do NOT have any choice on this the first time you log on. Prepare for this with a password of at least six (6) characters. The system will also timeout if you do not enter a password soon enough. You can come back and change it later with the following command.

     
   set password
   

   Choose a password that you will be able to remember, but not your name, initials, student number, or any single word that might be found in the dictionary. Remember, if you get an error message, your password was NOT changed and you must repeat the procedure. When you enter your password it will not show. This goes for both your new and old passwords.

   $ set password 
   Old password: current-password 
   New password: new-password 
   Verification: new-password
   

5. Make your own copy of the LOGIN.COM file for this class
   $ copy [135T_MGR]login.com *
6. List the files you now have. There will be two versions of your LOGIN.COM file.

    
   $ dir
   

7. Log off

   $ log
   

8. Log back onto the system in using your NEW password. This time you should also see the announcement for the class. If not, you are likely to need some help. Until the LOGIN.COM is copied there is a limit on LOGIN.COM files, which may keep you from making the copy. The protection may need to be changed. See me, Louis Taber, or a lab aid.
9. Request a copy of your LOGIN.COM file to be printed on the system printer.

   $ print login.com
   

10. Log off the system. This will prevent others from using your account.

    $ log
    

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Lab 4.1: VAX Set-up
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