Unit 4 Users and Groups

Unit 4 Users and Groups

The installation routines went surprisingly well this week. Installing Webmin was the most complicated and time consuming assignment but the instructions were so precise and I was lucky enough to avoid any typos or miss including a line of commands that might otherwise have left me hanging out there. Perhaps it would have been a learning opportunity to have gone off on a detour, but everything is challenging enough. I did spend a lot of time studying the readings and reviewing the Griffith tutorials so I think that helped a lot. I find myself waiting until Saturday to confront the linux exercises, my old brain is just too sleep deprived during the week to handle the linux syntax.

Of course, I haven't started the optional practice computer work yet. I plan on trying it out tomorrow. I hope things go as smoothly tomorrow as they did today. I'm reluctant to share any tips for fear of jinxing things. But I've found that if I start early in the morning after a good night's sleep and with a strong cup of Joe nearby that things go well enough. Would never, never, never have been able to figure out how to install Webmin without the step by step instructions.

The command line “add a user” process went the smoothest of all the ways I experimented with to add a user. I did kind of run around the Maypole a little bit while using the Gnome Desktop Adm Utilities. The mouse arrow gets a little lost visually on the remote desktop so that was shaky. Remembered that the sudo password was available on the course home page, so that was helpful. Got a little lost looking for the three tabs [account, user privileges and advanced] but managed to figure it out. The lag between striking a key on my laptop and seeing the response on the remote desktop isn't as disconcerting as it might be othewise. My IT guy set me up with a version of VNC years ago so that I could troubleshoot public PC's at our remote branch library, so I sort of knew what to expect from that. However, I find that the VNC connections do break down over time. I recall he said it was principally due to registery problems, not sure if that's true but even if it is, my knowledge of the registry system is the article we read earlier in this course.

Well thanks for reading this week's blog entry. Until next time...