Lesson 2 - Your UNIX Account
Required Reading
- Learning
UNIX : Chapters 1 & 3 (we are skipping Chapter
2)
Additional Notes
In order to log into a UNIX account remotely, you need to
have access to telnet. If you aren't familiar with telnet,
here's a primer, including
some links for downloading an application. Make sure you can
figure out how to copy text from your telnet session, because
that's what you'll need to do in order to submit your projects
for this class. On most telnet applications you can simply
highlight the text with your mouse and copy/paste it into
another program, but on some applications you'll have to mess
with the menu options.
I didn't really feel like the book's treatment of UNIX permissions
and chmod was thorough enough -- it is definitely more
of a "cookbook" than an explanation of permissions.
This is a critical topic for webmasters, especially if you
plan to working with CGI programming, so I do think it's important
that you understand why the permissions need to be set a certain
way. So, if you feel like you'd like more explanation (such
as how the numbers 755 translate into rwxr-xr-x persmissions),
here are some WWW articles on UNIX permissions: Part
1 and Part
2.
If you come from a DOS background, this
article will probably be very helpful to you as well as
this quick
reference.
As for email, another very popular UNIX mail program is called
elm. It's a menu-driven interface like pine,
and a whole lot easier to use than regular mail.
Next Step
Take the self-quiz
Complete project 1
Continue to lesson 3
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