Unit 4

Well after a frustrating time with the Linux tutorials last week, I can finally say that I think I'm getting a handle on things. I even went back to the .bashrc configuration and redid the exercise after going back to a previous snapshot. That worked perfectly!! Whatever I screwed up in the first place was all fresh and new with the snapshot so I was able to FOLLOW DIRECTIONS and try again. And yes, following the directions EXACTLY is the only way to have Linux work for you. I have learned this the hard way so far. But hindsight is 20/20.

This week was pretty smooth sailing during the three exercises for adding a user/group. The Command Line Interface (CLI) option was the easiest by far. Just type in what you want and there you have it. The Gnome desktop way of adding a user required a little more effort... I mean I had to watch an almost 10 min YouTube video explaining how to do it. ;) adding a user through Webmin was pretty cool, although it required a few prerequisite steps like locating the computer's IP address from the VM server first. Even my close friend who is a Linux guru had never used Webmin so I feel pretty cool right about now. ;)

When I tried to access the new users on the desktop edition everything was peachy keen but I had some frustration when I tried to login on the server edition. My first new user worked fine and then my second user was denied. I tried changing the capitalization and the password in case I typed it wrong (or wrote it down wrong). I was finally able to go in as my regular user self and see that even though all my other new users had Capital letters at the the start of their user name this one particular user didn't. It's kind of funny because I named my new users after the pets in my household and this particular cat I named this problem user after is a very problematic cat! LOL

I can certainly see some similarities between computer programs and persnickety cats... each must be approached in its own way and that is not always the way one thinks is right. Computer issues mostly stem from inept humans... now where did cats figure into this? Maybe it's a Schrodinger's Box kind of metaphor. Computer programs and cats are both paradoxes... at least the majority of the time in my world. Sorry about the tangent.