If you have used X windows before, take some time now to try opening a couple of xterm windows and moving or resizing them. We'll count on your experienced lab partner to help you with left and middle mouse button information. Whenever you have a new account, changing your initial password to your own private one is a good idea. Just type passwd in one of your windows and answer the questions. If it doesn't like the password that you picked, try throwing in numbers, capital letters, or other symbols.
Some password checking programs are very strict.
You can find out more about changing passwords here . If you cannot change your password at all, log in to another SUnix machine rlogin mothra and change it there. Then exit from mothra logout . If you are interested, you're welcome to poke around in the NPAC Web pages and see what's there. If you're new to Unix, there'll be some things to learn about directory structure and commands, but we'll leave most of that for tonight's lab session .