After entering a login ID, you will then see a prompt asking for a password. Always keep your password a secret, and never give it to anyone. The best passwords are easy to remember, do not need to be written down, and are not easily discovered. Never pick a password based on an object or person closely identified with you. After entering a password, you learned that you will encounter a Unix prompt.
Some people freeze at the sign of the prompt.
While few people need to choreograph their every move, each person should have a general idea of the goal of each session and what keystrokes he or she might have to use. A little planning and some keystroke research, if new to a system, go a long way toward neutralizing any apprehension about a session. The instructions in the following chapters are valid no matter what kind of environment you're using. They do not describe the exact steps to get to Internet services by way of dedicated lines, dumb terminals, or bulletin board systems, though some of those steps may be the same. However, once you have arrived into such services as Gopher, ftp, and telnet, the keystroke commands specific to those tools are often the same no matter how you got there.