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Login
How to login, log out, shutdown, log in as root or as a different user and,
naturally, how to start and stop X.
So here we go:
Login
Unlike most any modern distribution, Absolute uses the simple test-based login. This is a hurdle that is
easily overcome, and makes switching users much quicker and easier later on. It is also great for security
reasons. that said, this is what you do to log in as root:
"hostname" is whatever you entered as the hostname during setup. It is the name of your machine.
The "login:" is a prompt, waiting for your input. So at the prompt you enter the username
you wish to log in as . . .
The first time you log in you must login as root, because there is no other account. See
the Creating a new user
page for details on how to make "normal"
user accounts. There is a painless little utility for this in Absolute!
As root the login proceeds like so:
Type root and press [ enter ]
You will then get the password prompt:
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hostname login:root
Password:_
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hostname login:root
Password:yourpassword_
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Type the password you made up during install mypassword and press [enter]
NOTE: your password will NOT be shown the display. It will look as if you are typing nothing! -- This
is by design, for security.
These things are CaSe SenSiTiVE, so be careful with upper and lower-case usage : ) If you
entered the name/password combination OK, then the prompt will look like so:
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hostname login:root
Password:
root:~>
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As a user the prompt will look like this:
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hostname login:username
Password:
username@hostname:~$_
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startx
After login you are left with one of these two prompts:
If you are root
hostname login:root
Password:
root:~>_
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If you are a user
hostname login:username
Password:
username@hostname:~$_
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To see all the windows, menus and pretty colors you type startx and press [enter], as so:
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hostname login:root
Password:
root:~>startx_
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If your video/display combination is set up OK, then you will now be in the pleasant,
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Login As a Different User
Maybe you have several users and one user is leaving and one is coming, or
maybe you are a user who want to temporarily log in as root to do some maintenance, or
maybe you're root and you no longer need to be . . .
From the GUI, the logout option is the first item in the menu:
If you click it, the following little dialog will pop up in the middle of your screen:
Cancel is the default, (in case your cat walked over your keyboard or something ) . . .
but just click OK and you will be back in the console.
A bit of an explanation -- logout from the menu closes all your apps and puts you in
the console (that black and white place with only text where you logged in from -- )
but it DOES NOT actually log you out of the machine. You are still whatever user you
logged in as -- because logout from the GUI logs you out of the GUI.
So after the menu logout, you are at the console with the same prompt you had before
you typed startx.
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If you are a user
username@hostname:~$_
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Hope that wasn't confusing. But once at the prompt you do this:
type: logout
Then it is as if you just started the machine. Log in as whomever you like : )
Synopsis -- to logout:
- Log out of the GUI
- Type logout in the console
Shutdown Machine
Not much easier could it be, grasshopper:
- Click Shutdown from the menu:
- Choose shutdown from the dialog
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