You have access to 3 Linuxes: 1. any/every PC you sit at that's booted into Linux you have your own account on, (it's the same account on every machine) 2. a small server that we have a shared user account, 3. a virtual machine that you have root access on. Classroom PCs boot into Fedora Core NFS mount of /home from 192.168.0.228 Your username is 'lastname' Change your password with the passwd command. Remember it. Another Linux we can look at: ssh -l cmit265 192.168.0.41 Do NOT change everyones password. To access 'your' Xen'ed virtural machine: ssh to 192.168.200.[11-30] as root: ssh -l root 192.168.200.nn subtract 9 from the last octet (nn) of the IP address and append that to the common prefix of the password, which is the machine's name (yes, confusing). I don't want to write the password in this publicly accessible file. IP 11 abbott 12 archer 13 bennett 14 duty 15 elias 16 good 17 heath 18 helvenstine 19 hoskelis 20 markham 21 masalbaladejore 22 moore 23 morrison 24 obermeyer 25 peters 26 pierre 27 shearer 28 thornton Example: moore's machine is 192.168.200.22, his password is commonPrefix13 (22-9=13) Change your root password with the passwd command. Remember it. Create a user account whose name is the same as yours with the useradd command: (this is what I did for mine): useradd -c "David Wills" -m wills Then give that new user a password with the passwd command: passwd wills Check that it works by switching to that user: su wills Then logout from that machine and login again as the new user.